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Applied AI R&D, engineering practice, and lessons from building intelligent systems — written by the MarcTech team.

Research23 July 2026

Applied AI R&D: Shipping Production Intelligence Without a Research Lab

Most Australian firms don't need a research lab to do real AI R&D. They need a disciplined loop that turns open questions into shipped systems. Here's the applied approach we use.

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Field Notes23 July 2026

The Last 200 Milliseconds: Engineering Latency in Real-Time Voice AI

A natural phone conversation lives or dies on response time. Here's how we engineer the latency budget for a real-time voice AI system — where the milliseconds go, and how to win the ones that matter.

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