O Capistaine! My Capistaine! — A School for AI Agents
· 9 min read
Or: how three years of infrastructure and three months of civic AI led us to the Dead Poets Society — and why the yawps are about to begin
The Red Thread: The Journey That Led to This Moment
· 10 min read
How infrastructure built for something else found its purpose in a small commune's elections
Ici, l'IA n'est pas une boite noire — c'est notre phare
· 6 min read
A manifesto for civic AI, written five days before the municipal elections of Audierne-Esquibien
The Well of Kvasir: When the RAG Pipeline Learned to Listen
· 9 min read
How a single email from a candidate revealed four distinct failures in four distinct layers — and why Separation of Concerns was the only way to fix them
Clean the Windshield: Enhancing RAG Without Upgrading the Engine
· 8 min read
Three near-zero-cost interventions that improved our civic RAG pipeline more than any model change could
The Conversation Loop: When Citizens Teach the AI What Matters
· 6 min read
How streaming, threads, and two small buttons turned a Q&A tool into a learning system
The Gazetteer Guard: When AI Needs a Map to Stop Erasing Places
· 5 min read
How a single false correction revealed the need for local geographic authority in AI pipelines
The RAG Adventure Begins: When Documents Learn to Speak
· 5 min read
How 60 social media screenshots became a searchable civic memory in one afternoon
When the Bottleneck Moves: From Chunking to Anonymization
· 5 min read
How TRIZ and Theory of Constraints guided us from a 120-second timeout to a zero-LLM first pass
What the Well Remembers
· 8 min read
On deliberately poisoning a well to see who guards it