Many clients see a technical lead and project manager as admin overhead: roles you can cut to save money. In our experience, they are the difference between a project that ships well and one that quietly falls apart after launch. When MantraX takes on a project, a senior member of our team leads it personally. […]
How AI In-Ovo Sexing Could End Chick Culling
AI in-ovo sexing uses machine learning to tell whether a chicken egg will hatch a male or a female chick, days before it hatches. It is a clear example of what AI does best outside of chatbots: sorting real-world data into categories, quickly and at scale. Key takeaways Male chicks from laying breeds are not […]
How to Choose a Software Development Partner for a Large Project
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash A large software project is one of the biggest bets a business makes, whether it is custom development, a legacy system modernization or an AI initiative. The budget is real, the implementation and timeline affect operations, and the result will be part of your daily work for years. Yet […]
AI-Assisted Software Development: Quality Over Cheap
Microservices: Do you really need it?
There’s an old carpentry proverb: when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Somewhere around 2015, the software industry handed every developer a hammer labelled “microservices” and told them Netflix used it. Ever since, we’ve been pounding perfectly good screws into the wall and wondering why the drywall keeps […]
What “data sovereignty” actually means for your AI stack
The phrase “data sovereignty” is everywhere right now. Vendors use it in their pitch decks. IT managers use it in budget requests. Compliance teams use it in risk assessments. Almost nobody agrees on what it means in practice. Here is a working definition: data sovereignty means your organization retains legal, physical, and operational control over […]
GPU for LLMs: What Is a GPU and Why Does It Matter?
Building a reliable RAG system
If you arrived here from LinkedIn, this is the longer version of the story. If you have used a RAG system, you have witnessed the “it works sometimes” problem. A query returns the right answer on Tuesday and an unrelated paragraph on Wednesday. The fix is rarely a single change. It is a sequence of […]
Databricks Mosaic AI – Frequently Asked Questions
Motivation If you’re part of any enterprise that wants to use Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemini etc., you know there is always some concern around exposing sensitive organizational data to these LLMs. Databricks acquired Mosaic AI in 2023 which helps tackle this exact problems – allows users to use any LLM without […]
The Honest AI Adoption Playbook: Lessons From a Company That Doesn’t Drink the Kool-Aid
If you have read our online reviews and customer testimonials, you will notice a theme: we value transparency and candid conversations … even if it results in walking away from a project. That’s the kind of company we are. In this blog post, we will share our honest take on AI Adoption after working with […]









