IMPAKT
Field notes and decision memos

Private AI Decision Library

Explore evidence-led notes on where AI should run, what agents need after the demonstration, and how technical mechanisms change workflow economics. Claims are bounded to their workload and evidence.

A 20-Question Screen for LLM Progress Claims

Use a 20-question screen to evaluate claims about scaling, benchmarks, context, retrieval, tools, quantization, serving, work effects, adoption, security, governance, and frontier opacity. Every question carries an evidence class, countercondition, local test, owner, and expiry so a dated result stays inside its decision boundary.

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Prompting, Retrieval, Fine-Tuning, Distillation, or Routing? Choose the Smallest Eligible Intervention

Match an observed AI failure to the least irreversible intervention that can resolve it. This decision ladder separates prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, distillation, and routing by mechanism, new operating burden, evaluation need, countercondition, and rollback instead of treating them as a technology maturity sequence.

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