Ask Zico: Production Architecture And Request Flow
4 min readAI Engineering
A system map of Ask Zico: the PHP trust boundary, Cloudflare Worker, evidence stores, model providers, operational state, and end-to-end request lifecycle.
Posts tagged #Arabic NLP
Found 8 articles
Design Alternatives: Why Ask Zico Uses Controlled Retrieval
6 min readAI Engineering
The project-specific evidence behind Ask Zico's controlled retrieval, stable identity, internal semantic routing, and application-owned ranking.
Ingestion Pipeline: Turning Arabic Site Content Into Citation-Ready RAG Chunks
8 min readAI Engineering
How Ask Zico preserves readable Arabic, normalized search text, deterministic per-build IDs, metadata, and coordinated retrieval artifacts.
Retrieval Pipeline: Hybrid Arabic Search With Stable Citations
6 min readAI Engineering
The launched Ask Zico retrieval pipeline: Arabic normalization, semantic routing, Vectorize, lexical shards, filters, rank fusion, and KV hydration.
Grounded Answer Generation: Turning Retrieved Arabic Evidence Into Safe Answers
7 min readAI Engineering
How Ask Zico compacts evidence, routes provider capacity, validates citation IDs, refreshes follow-up evidence, and deliberately falls back.
Evaluation: Making An Arabic RAG Assistant Earn Its Citations
7 min readAI Engineering
A layered evaluation method for Arabic retrieval, answer correctness, citation precision, refusals, regressions, and production feedback.
UX: Designing A Trust-Calibrated Arabic RAG Assistant
5 min readAI Engineering
How the launched Ask Zico interface uses Arabic-first copy, visible sources, deliberate fallback, quota states, feedback, and mobile reading behavior to calibrate trust.
Observability: Operating A Citation-Bound Arabic RAG Assistant
5 min readAI Engineering
How Ask Zico uses structured D1 events, retrieval metadata, provider attempts, quota outcomes, CPU phases, and message-linked feedback without publishing private traffic.