Insights

Lessons from shipping AI in production.

Real-world notes on voice agents, RAG, autonomous systems, and the trade-offs that matter when AI meets production.

Voice AI·Apr 22, 2026

ElevenLabs vs Vapi vs Retell — Voice AI Platform Comparison 2026

Side-by-side comparison of the three leading voice AI platforms in 2026 — latency, languages, pricing, integrations, and what we ship in production at Ikki.

9 min read

RAG·Apr 8, 2026

RAG Implementation Guide for SMBs (2026)

How to ship a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that actually works for SMBs — chunking, embeddings, evaluation, and the mistakes that cost us six weeks.

12 min read

Voice AI·Mar 25, 2026

Voice AI Agent Cost: How Much Does It Really Cost in 2026?

Real-world numbers from voice AI projects we shipped: build cost, monthly run cost, hidden expenses, and how to avoid common pricing traps.

8 min read

Lessons·Mar 12, 2026

Lessons from Shipping Seven AI Products

What we learned shipping voice agents, RAG platforms, fintech engines, civic AI, and immersive web — the patterns that worked, the ones that didn't, and the things nobody told us.

11 min read

Voice AI·Feb 26, 2026

Building Maideo: Voice AI Recruiting for Home Services

How we shipped a voice agent that pre-qualifies care workers — architecture, pitfalls, the prompt that finally worked, and the production numbers.

10 min read

Platforms·Feb 12, 2026

Why We Chose Nuxt 4 for AI Products in 2026

After shipping seven AI products, here's the architecture we converged on — Nuxt 4 + Fastify + MongoDB — and why it beats Next.js, Astro, and SvelteKit for our use case.

9 min read

SHIP LOG

SHIP-0247·CODEMACHIA·v1.4.2—DEPLOYED 2026-05-04 01:30 UTC