Why perception is the real unlock for AI products
The hard part of most AI products isn’t the model. It’s perception — helping a system take in the world the way a person would, so that what it does next actually fits the situation.
Models are commodities; perception is context
Capable models are increasingly easy to reach. What separates a useful product from a demo is the context it perceives: the state of things, the constraints, the intent behind a request.
Designing for perception
We treat perception as a first-class design problem — what the system should notice, what it should ignore, and how it shows its work so people can trust it.