Banks, telecoms, and government bodies across the region want AI's leverage without shipping sensitive data to a foreign cloud. Here's how on-premise, self-hosted AI actually works — and when it's the right call.
While building Labiba AI, a RAG assistant for Zain's Legal Affairs department, the pipeline kept falling apart at step one: reading scanned Arabic letters. Here's how a locally hosted vision model ended up replacing the OCR engine entirely.
Users kept telling me the same thing about Labiba AI: "I know the answer is in this document, but it can't find it." The information was always near the end of a long, multi-page letter. Here's why that happens and how parent-document retrieval fixed it.
