Foundation Models & Retrieval
Essays by the OneMind Strata Team. Click a title to open the full essay.
RAG Isn’t a Silver Bullet—But This Setup Works Often
Cross-Industry
Notes on chunking, grounding, and when to skip RAG entirely.
When to Fine-Tune vs. Prompt vs. Tools
Technology & Software
A practical decision tree we use in workshops.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Design Patterns for Scale
Cross-Industry
End-to-end patterns for chunking, indexing, grounding, citations, and fallbacks at scale.
Embedding Drift: Detecting When “Meaning” Moves
Finance & Banking
A lightweight drift monitor using canary queries and centroid distance.
Retrieval Latency: Where the Milliseconds Hide
Retail & Consumer
Profiling the path: network, serialization, vector I/O, and cold caches.
Structured Retrieval with Small Adapters
Manufacturing & Production
Marrying structured stores with vector recall without heroics.