I architect AI systems, build businesses, and consult for organizations navigating the AI landscape. I believe in turning cutting-edge research into real-world products that scale.
- Building AI-powered products and leading tech ventures
- Consulting enterprises on AI strategy and implementation
- Exploring the intersection of AI, systems design, and business
Plain-English deep dives on how AI systems actually work — no code, one metaphor per article, honest about where things break.
- The Open-Book AI — a 10-part series on RAG: how retrieval turns forgetful chatbots into experts on your own documents, and where it falls apart.
- The Map of Meaning — a 6-part series on embeddings: how AI turns language into geography, why "money back" finds "refund", and where the map lies.
- The Cutting Room — a 6-part series on chunking: the hidden craft of cutting documents into pieces an AI can actually retrieve.
- Model Distillation — a 7-part series on distillation: why frontier models are too expensive to deploy, and the math that moves their knowledge into small ones.
All 29 articles at pritishmaheta.com/blog.
"The best way to predict the future is to build it."



