How to Give AI Agency Without Giving It Reckless Power
Six rungs of agent agency, capability checks re-run at dispatch, mandatory coding plan approval with repository grounding, and why there is deliberately no merge primitive.
Engineering
Deep technical write-ups from the DialNexa engineering team: voice AI architecture, real-time latency tuning, telephony infrastructure, speech pipelines, and the tradeoffs behind shipping production voice agents at scale.
Company Memory Is a Governance Problem, Not a Vector Database
Why we shipped governed AI memory with zero embeddings: Postgres tsvector retrieval, OR-lexeme queries, role-scoped visibility enforced in SQL, revision snapshots, and the gaps we have not closed.
An AI Is Only as Intelligent as the Reality It Can Access
How Alfred reaches company data safely: a self-hosted MCP gateway, per-provider path allowlists, lossless response paging, and a Chrome extension with ECDSA P-256 device pairing.
Everyone Wants a Company Second Brain. Almost Nobody Is Building One.
The architecture behind Alfred, DialNexa’s internal AI agent: 45 tools, prompt cache tiers, four-layer read-only enforcement, and why trust has to live in the code rather than the prompt.