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