The Cutting Room

A plain-English series on chunking — the hidden craft of cutting documents into pieces your AI can actually find. The workshop behind the Confetti Problem.

1. 01

   The Missing Page: Why Your AI Can't Find What's Right There

   The failure nobody suspects, because nothing looks broken

   4 min
2. 02

   The Goldilocks Cut: How Big Should a Chunk Be?

   Why chunk size is a zone, not a number

   4 min
3. 03

   The Author's Seams: Cut Where the Document Already Bends

   The cheapest chunking upgrade in existence

   4 min
4. 04

   The Decapitated Table: PDFs and the Documents That Fight Back

   Where chunking goes to die

   4 min
5. 05

   The Meaning Seam: Cutting by Topic When Structure Lies

   Chunking with the map instead of the ruler

   4 min
6. 06

   The Findability Test: How to Know You Cut It Right

   Chunking is editing, and editing needs a reader

   4 min