From My Material Into the Wiki

ai-solutions.wiki is a free, open knowledge base for building AI systems that survive production. Most of it is reference material: tools, comparisons, a glossary. The pieces below are different. They started as my own talks, workshops, videos and projects, and were written down so that nobody needs to have been in the room.

The wiki content is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and the source is on GitHub.

Courses and learning paths

The AI Film Crew Course. How software and AI are built on AWS, told through one real system, the serverless AI video pipeline, and a garden metaphor. Nine modules, about 24 minutes, with video and full transcripts. The talk behind it is From Raw Footage to Publish-Ready.
The Gardener Path. The cloud, serverless and orchestration explained the way you would grow a garden. Each lesson has a short video, a plain-words explanation with sources, and a quick check.
The Garden Lens. The whole system as a garden, in short clips, each one a metaphor for one real idea.

The method, written down

From AI Idea to Working Prototype in 3 Workshops. The three-workshop format I run with clients, from AI curiosity to a validated, buildable prototype.
The Use Case Scoring Framework. From 57 ideas to 3 prototypes: the scoring that decides what is worth building first.
AI Systems Are Software Systems. The argument the whole wiki is organised around.
The Five Layers of AI Systems. The map I draw in almost every talk.

Patterns from real builds

Hybrid Cloud AI Video Pipeline. A video pipeline that spans on-premises storage and AWS.
Tiered Analysis Pattern. Cheap analysis first, expensive analysis only for what passes the threshold.

Learn through your world

Same technology, a different lens. These come from the things I do when I am not building.

The Juggler, with Juggling and Technology, Juggling and the Brain and Juggling and Change.
The Fashionista. Version control and technical debt as seasonal collections and cluttered wardrobes.
The Craftsperson. Architecture and production quality as blueprints and the marks of a master’s work.

Videos

If You Were an AWS Service. Six short videos for beginners, filmed at AWS Hero Summit Seattle 2025. People answer one question, and a short explainer after each answer says what that service does.

Why it is on a wiki

A talk reaches the people in the room. A wiki page reaches the person who searches for the problem two years later. I wrote about the reasoning in Why I Built AI Solutions Wiki.