Institutional Knowledge: Grounding an Answer Without Citing It
Some of the best answers draw on knowledge you don't want shown as an official source. Here's the feature we built for that, and the bug it exposed.
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John Williams
Chief Scientist at Rapidflare
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Rapidflare, where he leads the development of AI agents for technical sales in the electronics and semiconductor industries — including Rapidflare's Visual Reasoning Engine for interpreting technical diagrams and schematics. Previously co-founded PetaLogix, building embedded Linux tools for the Xilinx ecosystem (acquired), and held academic and research positions at Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland working in such diverse fields as AI, cyber security and reconfigurable computing. Fun fact: in a past life he ported the Linux kernel to an FPGA-based soft-CPU architecture.
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Loop Engineering, Applied: Syncing a Moving API into an MCP Server
Loop engineering means designing the system that prompts your agent, not the prompt. Here's what that looks like on a real production problem: keeping our MCP server synced with a moving API.
Introducing the Electronics Industry’s First AI Agent with Visual Reasoning
Rapidflare introduces the electronics industry’s first visual-reasoning AI agent, turning schematics, diagrams, and technical visuals into searchable knowledge with diagram-grounded answers for engineering, support, sales, and marketing teams.