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Updated May 2026 · what is this?

Most of my time this month is going into launching Argus Intelligence ahead of the EU AI Act's August 2026 deadlines. The first product — the EU AI Footprint Scanner — is the focus; the rest of the work is either feeding into it or kept warm.

Shipping

  • Argus Intelligence — small AI-tooling brand for the EU compliance space. Domain registered, design spec and 26-task implementation plan in place, Estonian OÜ in progress (e-Residency application submitted).
  • EU AI Footprint Scanner — Argus's first product. CLI shipped, GitHub App for CI integration is the next milestone.

Building (alongside)

  • aegis-rag — wiring up a RAGAS eval harness so I can stop saying "it retrieves well" and start posting faithfulness numbers.
  • Local LLM benchmarking — full sweep of Qwen and Llama variants at Q4_K_M / Q5_K_M / Q6_K on 16GB. The goal is a small honest table, not a leaderboard.
  • YOLO custom detection — label audit pass before any more training runs. Dataset work, not hyperparameter work.

Planning

  • PRD locked for an Argus Compliance Copilot — RAG over the EU AI Act, sold as the Pro tier of the Scanner once the GitHub App ships.

Learning

  • Reranker architectures — specifically when a cross-encoder reranker is worth the latency tax vs. just retrieving more candidates.
  • Quantization math: why Q4_K_M outperforms plain Q4_0 per-byte, and what "K-quant" is actually doing.

Not doing

  • Training foundation models. Fine-tuning giant models on rented GPUs isn't where my time has the best return right now — the retrieval and inference-serving side is.

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