Alan Nguyen

Automating the boringstack.

boringstack

Insights

boringstack architecture layers

boringstack

End-to-end back-office AI architecture. Five layers from governance through to client interface.

 AI use cases priority matrix

AI Backoffice Use Cases

66 stack-ranked AI opportunities across 6 domains, scored by automation potential and impact.

 Backoffice opportunity bubble chart

Backoffice Opportunity Map

Interactive bubble chart mapping automation opportunities by time to value against automation ceiling.

 Claude memory system explorer

Claude Memory 101

Interactive explorer for Claude Code's three-layer memory system and persistent context.

AI Research

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37 tools

scaling threshold

Anthropic Research

MCP Tool Scaling

Tool selection accuracy degrades beyond 37 tools without hierarchical routing.

4x recall

hybrid vs. dense

Applied AI Research

RAG Architectures

Hybrid retrieval with reranking achieves 4x recall improvement over dense retrieval alone.

92% accuracy

multi-step tasks

Agent Systems

Deep Research Agents

Structured reasoning chains with verification steps reach 92% accuracy on multi-step research tasks.