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Notes from the side projects: charts, chat assistants, and the lessons in between.
2026
Sep 022 min read
Teach the bot from a PDF, without burning tokens
michi-chat can now turn a PDF into knowledge-base facts. The analysis is free, the mechanical junk is stripped deterministically, and you see what the AI clean-up would cost before a single token is spent.
Aug 304 min read
Introducing michi-chat
A small self-hostable chat assistant platform for small businesses: multi-tenant, grounded in tools and RAG, and built to never invent a fact. The first tenant is Mugshot Artisan Cafe of mugshotmnl.com.