Applied AI notes: RAG, agents, vertical models

Short notes for companies that already have — or still need — a system of record. Applied AI is not a replacement for WMS or ERP.

We add retrieval or agents when the workflow can host them. If you cannot retrieve the current SOP or the current stock, a model will guess. These six notes are the overseas rewrite of our public AI pages.

Vertical LLMs

Industry or private models after item codes and roles exist — not a chatbot on chaos.

AI agents

Tool calling with an audit trail. Not a substitute for approvals or inventory.

RAG architecture

Ground answers in a corpus you can retrieve. Bad documents stay bad answers.

AI data security

Deploy, access and redaction. Same permission matrix as the back office.

Embodied AI

Robots consume WMS jobs. Hardware demos without locations do not run a floor.

AIGC for operations

Generated assets must inherit catalog IDs. Content is not a system of record.