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September 9, 2026 · 14 min read · By Mohammed Lokhandwala, Acumen Lead Featured

Squeezing Every Drop: Running a real LLM and Hermes Agent on your own local 8GB machine!

How we tuned bare-metal llama-server, Quantization-Aware Training (QAT), and fused Metal kernels to run a 16K-context autonomous agent on an entry-level 8GB M1 Mac Mini.

#Local LLM #Hardware Optimization #Hermes Agent #Engineering
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September 8, 2026 · 3 min read · By Acumen Operations Lead

How a 14-Person Business Saved 20 Hours a Week on Paperwork

A practical breakdown of how automating invoice and order intake freed a lean operations team from endless manual data entry.

#Case Study #Operations #QuickBooks
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September 1, 2026 · 4 min read · By Acumen AI Team Featured

The Practical AI Playbook for Small & Medium Businesses

Why smart companies are skipping the hype and focusing on the 3 everyday tasks that actually save money and protect margins.

#Business Operations #ROI #Automation
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September 5, 2024 · 9 min read · By Mohammed Lokhandwala, Acumen Lead

Practical Ways to Guardrail RAG Applications Using Open Source Tools

A comprehensive engineering guide on securing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines against prompt injection, data leakage, and hallucination using open-source guardrails.

#RAG #AI Security #Guardrails #Engineering
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August 30, 2024 · 8 min read · By Mohammed Lokhandwala, Acumen Lead

Dense and Sparse Embeddings: A Comprehensive Overview

Deep dive into representation architectures in modern search and NLP: contrasting dense vector representations with sparse lexical embeddings and hybrid retrieval strategies.

#Vector Search #Embeddings #NLP #RAG
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