# Softlandia

> Softlandia is a Finnish applied AI engineering company. It designs and builds production-grade AI systems: LLM applications, RAG, agents, real-time data pipelines, and evals (LLM performance reviews) for innovative SaaS businesses, and incubates AI-native companies through its venture studio.

## Engineers Corner (engineering blog)

Selected blog posts that illustrate state of the art applied AI engineering. 

- [LLM Wiki: The Compounding Knowledge Base, Explained](https://softlandia.com/articles/llm-wiki-the-compounding-knowledge-base-explained): An LLM wiki is a knowledge base your AI agents read and maintain — what it is and how to build one.
- [AI Agents for Tabular Data Processing](https://softlandia.com/articles/ai-agents-for-tabular-data-processing): LLMs struggle with tabular data like CRM, SQL, or Excel. How agentic workflows tackle this challenge effectively.
- [Machine Vision in 2026: The Rise of Foundation Models](https://softlandia.com/articles/machine-vision-in-2026-the-rise-of-foundation-models): Foundation models can handle vision tasks from a prompt — but ML fundamentals still matter for production-grade systems.
- [Best Way to Build an AI Engine in 2026](https://softlandia.com/articles/best-way-to-build-an-ai-engine-in-2026): How to build an AI engine for SaaS in 2026. LLM provider and framework comparison with data to guide architecture.
- [AI Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them](https://softlandia.com/articles/ai-architecture-pitfalls-and-how-to-avoid-them): Common AI architecture mistakes that lead to fragile systems. Build scalable applied AI and avoid technical debt.
- [How to Trust an LLM: Evaluations Are a Company-wide Challenge](https://softlandia.com/articles/how-to-trust-an-llm-evaluations-are-a-company-wide-challenge): LLM evaluation guide for enterprise teams. Build continuous AI evaluation practices that catch model failures early.
- [Training Tiny Specialized Language Models](https://softlandia.com/articles/training-tiny-specialized-language-models): Train small specialized language models using MEGABYTE and TinyStories. Lessons on capability with limited compute.
- [Top Things to Know About AI Transcription](https://softlandia.com/articles/top-things-to-know-about-ai-transcription-to-stay-ahead-of-the-competition): AI transcription turns speech into text for fast, detailed docs, voice insights, and multilingual content.
- [Real-time Data Processing in Python: Technology Evaluation](https://softlandia.com/articles/real-time-data-processing-in-python---technology-evaluation): Which Python data streaming framework wins? Compare Spark, Flink, and Bytewax for stateful real-time workloads.
- [Distributed Data Science with Metaflow and Dask](https://softlandia.com/articles/distributed-data-science-with-metaflow-and-dask): Metaflow and Dask tutorial for scaling data science workflows from local to cloud on Azure.
- [Deploying Qdrant with gRPC & Auth on Azure](https://softlandia.com/articles/deploying-qdrant-with-grpc-auth-on-azure-a-fastapi-singleton-client-guide): Deploy Qdrant on Azure with gRPC auth using a FastAPI singleton client. Covers access control and Python integration.
- [From Earth to Mars: The Impact of Our Open-Source Contributions](https://softlandia.com/articles/from-earth-to-mars-the-impact-of-our-open-source-contributions): Softlandia's open-source work — including opencv-python, used by NASA on the Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission.

## Venture Studio

Softlandia's Venture Studio turns proven technology and founder ambition into new AI-native companies. Built on first-principles thinking, technical depth, and shared ownership, it incubates, builds, and launches ventures that originate either inside Softlandia's engineering teams or with external founders.

- [Venture Studio](https://softlandia.com/venture-studio): How Softlandia incubates and builds AI-native companies.

## SaaS Ventures

- [Spogen.ai](https://spogen.ai/): Speaking AI assistant for machine operation and maintenance efficiency across heavy machinery.
- [GitHits](https://githits.com/): Agentic code search across public GitHub repositories for actionable code examples.
- [Dobbin.ai](https://dobbin.ai/): AI thinking partner that turns business expertise into actionable team intelligence.
- [FuOHealth](https://fuo.health/): AI-native learning platform for HealthTech and MedTech companies.

## Open Source

- [vision-is-all-you-need](https://github.com/Softlandia-Ltd/vision-is-all-you-need): Vision RAG — document retrieval with vision models instead of text chunking. Demo code.
- [stateful-streaming-examples](https://github.com/Softlandia-Ltd/stateful-streaming-examples): Stateful streaming examples with Bytewax for real-time data and RAG pipelines.

## Company

- [About Softlandia](https://softlandia.com/about-us): Team, mission, and applied AI expertise.
- [Contact](https://softlandia.com/contact-us): Get in touch with Softlandia.

## Optional

- [Ada Hieta Is Speaking at RustConf 2026](https://softlandia.com/articles/ada-hieta-is-speaking-at-rustconf-2026): Lessons from building a GPU-accelerated ONNX runtime in Rust, presented at RustConf 2026.
- [Join our webinars or replay past sessions](https://softlandia.com/webinars): Interactive sessions to SaaS executives and founders to stay on top the latest applied in applied AI.