Guides
Everything we have written down
Replacing an expensive model with a cheaper one is only worth doing if you can prove quality held. These are the pieces of that argument: how a prompt gets optimized, what makes a set of examples trustworthy, why prompts decay, and how to move off a platform that is closing. Every number in them comes from a run you can repeat.
Making a prompt better, provably
Start here if you have a prompt in production and no number that says whether it works.
- Prompt optimization that proves itselfProductHow GEPA rewrites a prompt against your verified examples, and why the score that matters comes from rows the optimizer never saw.July 12, 2026
- Your prompt worked. Then it got worse.GuideThe four reasons prompts decay in production, why you find out last, and the six-step regression test that catches it before your users do.July 15, 2026
- Receipt extraction, eight models, one held-out sliceBenchmarkOur public benchmark in full: 200 real scanned receipts, every score reproducible, including the runs that did not go our way.July 12, 2026
- The last hand-tuned promptEssayFor the people who fund AI work rather than write it: what changed when prompt tuning stopped being a person guessing, in plain English.July 16, 2026
Deciding what to adopt
Start here if you are choosing between tools, surfaces, or a way off a platform that is closing.
- The set of examples that decides what shipsGuideWhat a golden dataset actually is, how many rows you need, what one is measurably worth, and the features that genuinely do not need one.July 25, 2026
- The skill, the SDK, and the consoleDecision guideThree surfaces, three questions to pick between them, and an honest answer to why the skill is not an MCP server.July 25, 2026
- Migrating off OpenAI fine-tuningMigration guideOpenAI stops accepting new fine-tuning jobs on January 6, 2027. The paths out, what each one costs you, and how to prove the replacement held quality.July 2, 2026
- After TensorZero and OpenPipeDecision guideA job-by-job comparison of what is left, including the jobs we are the wrong tool for.July 13, 2026
Or skip the reading and run the loop on one of your own tasks. Start a free pilot, or read the quickstart.