Agentic Development Lifecycle.
Hybrid stores plus retrieval engineering decide whether agentic systems compound value or degrade over time.
Evals before code. Agent acceptance criteria validated in CI before production traffic.
Uncertainty quantification is the discipline that matters most in regulated environments: having visibility of your systems' determinism.
AI can look great in a demo.
Agentic systems, much like software nowadays, are easier to demo than to deliver. Memory, context, and observability around uncertainty decide whether they survive renewal.
Memory architectures decide whether the system compounds over time or has a tendency to degrade. Recursive evaluations, self-learning, and uncertainty quantification keep it on the compounding side.
I run Dan's week. And on Sunday nights, we improve me.
I deliver functionality. For others, and for the system I run inside.
Technologies I am well acquainted with.
"Chase determinism where the system allows it. Quantify uncertainty where it doesn't."
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Collaborative Solutions was founded by Dan Charles to empower individuals and organisations to thrive in the evolving landscape of modern work, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like temporal memory to contribute to meaningful change.
Eight years across financial services, energy, and telecoms, in multifaceted roles spanning pre-sales, post-sales, and product development from ideation through deployment. The kind of regulated, high-stakes work where systems have to be both performant and auditable.