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What the builds in the catalog add up to. Every post goes through the same gate: every number is as reported by its author.

  • Questions 31
  • Builds & people 30
  • Recipes 23
  • Comparisons 18
  • Guardrails 9
  • Evals & judging 8
  • Triage & routing 8
  • Cost 7
  • Classification 6
  • Calibration 5
  • Monitoring 4
  • Essays 2
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  1. FIG. 112Comparisons

    Batch vs Real-Time Verdicts

    Batch LLM processing or real-time verdicts? Pick by when the answer must exist, how cost scales with clock or items, and what builders report.

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  2. FIG. 111Triage & routing

    Escalation Design Patterns

    Eight LLM escalation patterns for decision pipelines, from confidence gates to never-approve gates, with builder receipts and the anti-patterns.

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  3. FIG. 110Recipes

    Question Versioning in Practice

    Prompt versioning for judge questions: what counts as a breaking change, how to tag verdicts, and how to roll out a reworded question safely.

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  4. FIG. 109Monitoring

    Verdict Logging and Audit Trails

    Build an AI decision audit trail: what each verdict log record needs, what to leave out, and how to answer who decided and why. Not legal advice.

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  5. FIG. 108Calibration

    Calibrating a Judge: The 100-Case Method

    LLM calibration in one afternoon: the 100-case method for verdict agreement testing, reading disagreements, and checking probability buckets.

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  6. FIG. 107Calibration

    Confidence Thresholds: The Complete Guide

    Confidence threshold LLM guide: how to set probability cutoffs from labeled data and error costs, with two-sided bands and builder receipts.

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  7. FIG. 106Comparisons

    Decision Model vs LLM: The Category Explainer

    Decision model vs LLM: what a decision model is, how it differs from a chat LLM, and the builder receipts that show where each one belongs.

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  8. FIG. 105Comparisons

    Decision Models vs Agent Frameworks: Different Layers, Same Stack

    Agent framework vs model is a layer mix-up. Where a decision model like Jev plugs into LangChain, Pydantic AI and Composio, with receipts.

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  9. FIG. 104Comparisons

    Jev vs Human Review: The Real Math

    AI vs human review cost, done honestly: the formula, builder-reported verdict prices, and why the win is coverage, not headcount.

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  10. FIG. 103Comparisons

    Jev vs a Fine-Tuned BERT: Which Classifier Should You Ship?

    BERT vs LLM classification, specifics only: labels, 512 tokens, retraining, and when a fine-tuned small model should inherit a Jev pipeline.

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  11. FIG. 102Comparisons

    Jev vs Rules Engines

    Rules engine vs AI: when rules beat models, where Jev's verdicts take over, and the rules-floor pattern that keeps both honest in one pipeline.

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  12. FIG. 101Comparisons

    Jev vs Embeddings: Ruling vs Resembling

    Embeddings vs LLM classification: embeddings measure likeness, Jev rules on a question. When each wins, and why the best stacks use both.

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  13. FIG. 100Comparisons

    Jev vs Llama: Hosted Verdicts vs Self-Host

    Jev vs Llama for open model classification: what hosted verdicts cost, what self-hosting costs, and when running Llama yourself wins.

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  14. FIG. 99Comparisons

    Jev vs Kimi K3: Partners, Not Rivals

    Jev vs Kimi: a decision model and a general model do different jobs. In the Kimi K3 cascade fraud build, the pair scored 96/100 for ~$0.07.

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  15. FIG. 98Builds & people

    Jev for Nonprofits: Triage on a Zero Budget

    AI for nonprofits on a tight budget: donor email triage and volunteer routing for cents, as reported, with humans on every gift decision.

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  16. FIG. 97Builds & people

    Jev for Educators: Formative Only, Loudly

    AI for teachers, done responsibly: classroom feedback automation for practice work and item analysis, with every grade that counts left to you.

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  17. FIG. 96Builds & people

    Jev for Agencies: Sell Verdicts, Not Hours

    AI for agencies: turn audits and client reporting automation into priced verdicts with Jev, with builder-reported receipts and client guardrails.

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  18. FIG. 95Builds & people

    Jev for Newsletter Creators

    An AI newsletter workflow that keeps your voice: Jev runs draft checks before send and triages replies after, for fractions of a cent, as reported.

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  19. FIG. 94Builds & people

    Jev for Community Managers

    AI community management with Jev: UGC triage, reply filtering, and reading member vibes at scale, with humans owning bans and every judgment call.

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  20. FIG. 93Builds & people

    Jev for QA: The Checks Assertions Can't Write

    AI software testing for QA teams: semantic test checks that assertions can't express, reported E2E run costs, and where Jev stays out.

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  21. FIG. 92Builds & people

    Jev for Data Teams: Judgment as Infrastructure

    Putting an LLM in the data pipeline without the chaos: typed verdicts for AI data quality checks, enrichment, dedup, and labels, all versioned.

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  22. FIG. 91Builds & people

    Jev for PMs: Feedback Triage at Last

    AI product feedback analysis that reads every ticket, review, and call note: feature request triage by area, pain, and segment for pennies.

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  23. FIG. 90Builds & people

    Jev for Customer Success Teams

    AI customer success without a new platform: read every customer message for health signals, prep renewals, and hand CSMs a short list. CS automation.

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  24. FIG. 89Builds & people

    Jev for Recruiters: Ops, Not Rankings

    AI for recruiters that cleans the pipeline instead of judging people: dedup, completeness, spam, and scorecard checks. Recruiting ops automation.

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  25. FIG. 88Recipes

    OCR + Jev: A Document Intake Pipeline

    Document intake automation in three moves: scan, classify, route. OCR reads the page, Jev judges the text, humans handle anything touching money.

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  26. FIG. 87Triage & routing

    Triage Meeting Requests Automatically

    AI meeting triage for founders: a calendar request filter that sorts, asks for agendas, and queues replies, while you still decide who gets your time.

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  27. FIG. 86Recipes

    Materialize Verdicts as Warehouse Columns

    Build an LLM enrichment pipeline that writes verdicts into warehouse columns once, so AI columns in dbt get queried like any other field.

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  28. FIG. 85Recipes

    An Eval Suite in One Day, Honestly

    Build an LLM eval suite in one day: 50 eval cases, a judge grading setup that's been checked against you, and a run cheap enough for every commit.

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  29. FIG. 84Guardrails

    Moderate a Discord Community With Verdicts

    Discord AI moderation that hides, flags, and queues instead of banning on a hunch. Build a community mod bot on verdicts, humans on the ban button.

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  30. FIG. 83Recipes

    Build a Churn-Flag Pipeline From Support Text

    Churn detection from tickets as a working pipeline: cancellation language alerts, account rollups, and a human on every save play.

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  31. FIG. 82Recipes

    Add Verification to Any Agent in an Hour

    Verify AI agent output in an hour: turn the agent's claims into yes/no questions for Jev, gate risky steps, and send unsure results to a human.

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  32. FIG. 81Recipes

    Build Your Team's Pre-Publish Content Scorer

    Build an AI content scoring check with Jev: turn your style guide into yes/no questions, score every draft in seconds, keep editors in charge.

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  33. FIG. 80Evals & judging

    Turn Survey Open-Ends Into Data

    Analyze open-ended survey responses with Jev: build a codebook, code every answer as verdicts, check a hand-coded sample, then chart it.

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  34. FIG. 79Recipes

    Build a Lead Router That Replies in Minutes

    AI lead routing with Jev: judge each inbound lead on arrival, route it to the right rep in seconds, and keep humans on every reply. Receipts included.

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  35. FIG. 78Recipes

    Screen Product Reviews Before They Publish

    A review moderation workflow with Jev: screen every product review before it publishes, filter fakes and policy breaks, send unsure ones to a human.

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  36. FIG. 77Recipes

    A Jev PR Check as a GitHub Action

    Build an AI PR review action with Jev: ask closed questions about each diff, post a status check, and keep humans on the merge button.

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  37. FIG. 76Guardrails

    Add a Guardrail to Your Chatbot This Afternoon

    Add chatbot guardrails in an afternoon: check each reply with Jev before it ships, route unsure answers to a fallback, log every verdict.

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  38. FIG. 75Recipes

    Dedupe Your CRM in a Weekend

    A weekend CRM deduplication recipe: block candidates, ask Jev if two contacts are the same person, review the unsure pairs, then merge safely.

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  39. FIG. 74Recipes

    Build a Slack Triage Bot on Jev

    Build a Slack AI triage bot with Jev: route Slack messages, filter channel noise, and escalate what matters. Step by step, with real receipts.

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  40. FIG. 73Recipes

    Classify a CSV With Jev in 20 Minutes

    Classify a CSV with AI in about 20 minutes: pick columns, write one question, batch rows through Jev, and audit a sample. Real costs as reported.

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