See how we're building the Trades Brain.

What's inside

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  vSLM architecture — Why we're building three verticalized small language models instead of one giant LLM, and the Gemma 4 base behind them.
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  Training pipeline — How in-app capture, distillation, and Founding Journeyman interviews feed the weekly retraining loop.
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  Model & infra specs — TS_Model, TS_mobileLarge, TS_mobileSmall. Quantization, deployment, per-home context, and evaluation plans.
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  Knowledge retention — The Journeyman Oral History Program and how we're preserving decades of trade knowledge before it retires.
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  Founding Journeyman Program — Contributor tiers, lifetime benefits, and how to earn a seat on the Founders' Council.