Archively · Field Notes Issue 001 / 2026 Updated weekly

Field Notes.

Long-reads on building intelligent data systems, AI grounded in real company knowledge, and the architecture behind Archively.

01 essay · More on the way

The archive.

— More essays in the pipeline
01

An LLM trained on internal documents, explained.

Why grounding beats fine-tuning, what RAG really does under the hood, and how to build a private AI on your own company data.

— Apr 30, 2026 ↗
02

Building one searchable layer across ten tools.

The connector architecture behind Archively, how we handle scoped permissions across vendors, and why federated search beats migration every time.

— In drafts ↗
03

Why most company wikis stop working at fifty people.

A look at the documented half-life of internal docs, why search degrades faster than headcount grows, and what to do about it before it becomes a hiring problem.

— In drafts ↗