AI
The AI Didn't Forget.
AI doesn’t always forget instructions. Sometimes the context window gets overloaded. Two very different AI workflows reveal the same problem - and why managing context matters.
Brian Pollack
The Hidden Risk of AI-Powered Rogue IT
by Brian Pollack Nobody hands out cordless saws at orientation. Think about the building you work in. Somebody designed the way people get into it. There is one main entrance where visitors sign in, badge readers on the doors that matter, cameras on the parking lot, a fire marshal who
Software Ownership
The Cost of Owning Software
by Brian Pollack Clients rarely misunderstand the cost of building software. That part is simple: the client asks for software with a goal, we build it, the transaction is complete. But that’s only the first step. Once software exists, someone has to own it. Below are those ownership costs,
AI Lab
You Know AI Matters. But Where Does It Actually Pay Off?
by Brian Pollack After 30 years of building software for healthcare, telecom, and many enterprise companies, I've pointed Protovate at one thing: AI software development. Custom software with AI doing the actual work inside it. Not chatbots. The unglamorous stuff. Recently we automated customer service requests and followup
White Paper
We stopped paying per token and put the models on our own machine
One workstation, a stack of open models from Hugging Face, a few hundred lines of Python, and an ngrok tunnel. Here is how Protovate builds and tests AI apps before a single API bill arrives. GPU memory32 GBenough for 7B–13B System RAM128 GBoffload headroom Models pulledText + imageopen weights Shared