AI Blog
Production AI engineering, LLM integration, RAG systems, and AI consulting — practical articles from an engineering perspective, based in Budapest.
5 April 2026
How to choose an AI agency in Budapest (2026 guide)
A practical checklist for choosing between Budapest-based AI development agencies — what to ask, what red flags to look for, and how to avoid paying for demos.
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8 May 2026
RAG vs Fine-Tuning in 2026: Which One Does Your Business Actually Need?
A straight answer: 80% of business AI use-cases need RAG, not fine-tuning. Here's the decision framework, real cost numbers, and when to combine both.
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9 May 2026
How Much Does It Cost to Build an AI Agent in 2026? (Real Numbers)
Honest pricing for AI agent development: single-agent from €12k, multi-agent workflows €30k–€70k, plus monthly running costs. What drives the price up — and down.
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11 May 2026
AI Agency vs In-House Team vs Freelancer: The Real Cost Comparison
Which way should you build AI capability — hire, contract a freelancer, or use an agency? A cost-and-risk breakdown for European companies in 2026.
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12 May 2026
LLM Security Checklist: 12 Vulnerabilities to Fix Before You Launch
Prompt injection, PII leakage, cross-tenant bleed, cost exploits — the 12 LLM vulnerabilities a pre-launch audit must cover, with the fix for each.
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12 May 2026
Voice AI Agents in 2026: What They Cost and When They Actually Work
Voice AI agents now answer calls under 500ms with natural turn-taking. Here's what they cost to build, where they win, where they fail — and the stack behind them.
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14 May 2026
Why AI Projects Fail: 10 Reasons — and How to De-Risk Yours
Most AI projects that fail don't fail on the model — they fail on scope, data, and the gap between a demo and production. The 10 failure modes, each with the fix.
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15 May 2026
How to Calculate the ROI of an AI Project (With a Worked Example)
A straight framework for the AI business case: the four benefit types, the full cost picture, the payback formula, and a worked example you can copy.
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16 May 2026
The EU AI Act: A Practical Compliance Guide for Businesses in 2026
What the EU AI Act actually requires — the four risk tiers, what counts as high-risk, the 2026 timeline, and a practical checklist for businesses deploying AI.
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17 May 2026
From AI Pilot to Production: Why Most Pilots Stall — and How to Cross the Gap
The hardest step in an AI project is not the pilot — it's shipping it. Why AI pilots stall in 'pilot purgatory', and the concrete steps to get to production.
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18 May 2026
How to Automate Customer Support with AI (Without Wrecking the Customer Experience)
A practical guide to AI customer support automation: what to automate, what to keep human, the RAG-copilot architecture, rollout steps, and the metrics that prove it works.
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19 May 2026
Vector Database Comparison 2026: Pinecone vs Qdrant vs pgvector vs Weaviate
A practical comparison of the four vector databases that matter for production RAG in 2026 — when to pick each, on cost, EU data residency, hybrid search, and scale.
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20 May 2026
How to Write an AI Project Brief That Gets You an Accurate Quote
A vague brief gets you a vague quote — or a wrong one. The 7 things an AI project brief must specify, with a copy-ready template, so vendors quote what you actually need.
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21 May 2026
AI Cost Optimization: 8 Ways to Cut Your LLM Bill Without Losing Quality
LLM costs creep up quietly in production. Eight concrete levers — model routing, prompt caching, RAG trimming, batching — to cut the bill while keeping output quality.
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16 May 2026
n8n Starter Guide 2026: Build Your First AI Workflow Step by Step
A no-fluff n8n starter guide: cloud vs self-host, your first trigger, adding an AI node, connecting your tools, and shipping a workflow to production.
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