<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>HoofLabs field notes</title><description>Practical AI with manageable costs and clear ownership.</description><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/</link><language>en-SG</language><item><title>Make production knowledge searchable with appropriate access controls</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/production-knowledge-access/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/production-knowledge-access/</guid><description>Give production teams a reliable route to the current instruction, while keeping permissions and source ownership intact.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Manufacturing</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Review engineering documents with AI-assisted checks</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/engineering-document-review/</link><guid 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estimate</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/project-requirements-estimating/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/project-requirements-estimating/</guid><description>Help estimators find and reconcile relevant specifications while retaining control of assumptions and commercial decisions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Engineering</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Compare site evidence with the construction programme</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/construction-progress-evidence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/construction-progress-evidence/</guid><description>Use site capture and structured comparison to make progress reporting more consistent and actionable.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Construction</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Draft weekly progress reports for project-manager review</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/weekly-site-reports/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/weekly-site-reports/</guid><description>Turn organised site evidence into a report draft that a project manager can verify and approve.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Construction</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Answer product questions from an up-to-date catalogue</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/retail-live-catalogue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/retail-live-catalogue/</guid><description>Combine approved product knowledge and live catalogue data without letting a model invent stock, pricing, or suitability.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Retail</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Handle peak order enquiries through exception queues</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/retail-order-exceptions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/retail-order-exceptions/</guid><description>Separate routine order-status work from exceptions that need a person, especially during seasonal demand peaks.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Retail</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Add route optimisation to an existing dispatch workflow</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/dispatch-route-optimisation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/dispatch-route-optimisation/</guid><description>Use structured constraints and optimisation to support dispatch planning while preserving operational control.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Logistics</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Use voice agents for routine carrier coordination</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/carrier-voice-coordination/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/carrier-voice-coordination/</guid><description>Bound voice automation to specific coordination tasks with structured checks and human exception handling.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Logistics</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Connect learner support to reliable operational knowledge</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/learner-support-knowledge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/learner-support-knowledge/</guid><description>Help support teams answer routine learner questions while keeping account context and changing policies under control.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Education</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Bring training-content production into a controlled internal workflow</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/training-content-production/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/training-content-production/</guid><description>Use AI-assisted production to make learning materials easier to create and update, with editorial ownership retained.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Education</category><category>Industry playbooks</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Run a business AI endpoint on a Mac Studio</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/mac-studio-business-endpoint/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/mac-studio-business-endpoint/</guid><description>Set up a bounded local inference service, then check model fit, latency, and day-to-day operating effort.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Run local AI automation on an NVIDIA-equipped PC</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/nvidia-local-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/nvidia-local-automation/</guid><description>Build an inference baseline around actual GPU memory, validated outputs, and a recoverable software environment.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Size model memory, quantisation, and context for your hardware</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/hardware-memory-context/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/hardware-memory-context/</guid><description>Estimate a sensible starting point, then verify actual memory pressure and task quality before increasing model size.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Extract structured business data with a small local model</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/structured-local-extraction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/structured-local-extraction/</guid><description>Move from a convincing response to a validated record, with explicit missing values and a controlled downstream handoff.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local 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GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Serve a local model to a team with authentication and monitoring</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/team-local-serving/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/team-local-serving/</guid><description>Turn a workstation experiment into a bounded service with identity, queue limits, update procedures, and an owner.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Benchmark a local AI workstation using real business tasks</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/local-workstation-benchmark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/local-workstation-benchmark/</guid><description>Compare quality, latency, memory, and accepted-task cost on a reproducible workload rather than a headline token rate.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Local infrastructure</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Choose the lowest-cost model that meets the task requirements</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/choose-lowest-cost-model/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/choose-lowest-cost-model/</guid><description>Evaluate capability by task, route expensive work selectively, and count review and operating effort alongside inference charges.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Cross-sector</category><category>Model selection</category><author>HoofLabs</author></item><item><title>Use frontier models in an industrial engineering design workflow</title><link>https://www.hooflabs.com/insights/industrial-engineering-frontier/</link><guid 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