Aloa AI Academy

Resources to build your business with AI.

Deep Dive

Semi-technical stories about building custom AI tools for ourselves and our clients and the lessons learned

Building an AI Medical Transcription App: Part 1 - The Transcription Engine
Deep Dive

Building an AI Medical Transcription App: Part 1 - The Transcription Engine

Welcome! I'm Chris from Aloa, and this is the first post in a series where we're building an AI medical transcription app from scratch. If you're interested in healthcare AI or just want to see some practical applications of technology, this series is for you. Today we're focusing on the transcription engine, which is the core technology that converts a doctor's dictation into text.

Chris Raroque

Chris Raroque

Co-Founder

Building a AI Recommendation System (RAG): 3 Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
Deep Dive

Building a AI Recommendation System (RAG): 3 Lessons We Learned the Hard Way

We built a RAG-powered recommendation system that matches user preferences against thousands of blog posts. It works great now, but we learned some expensive lessons about rerankers, vector databases, and data structure along the way. Here's what we wish we'd known before we started.

Finney Koshy

Finney Koshy

Product

AI Overviews Are Eating Your Clicks - Here’s What We Found After Analyzing 2,540 Top-Ranking Keywords
Deep Dive

AI Overviews Are Eating Your Clicks - Here’s What We Found After Analyzing 2,540 Top-Ranking Keywords

We analyzed 2,540 top keywords to see just how bad it is—and who’s hit hardest.

Oussama Bettaieb

Oussama Bettaieb

Marketing Director

The Reality of RAG
Deep Dive

The Reality of RAG

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) combines LLMs with external data sources for enhanced AI responses. While perfect for simple Q&A and chatbots with custom data, our real-world implementation revealed significant limitations with accuracy, debugging, and complex queries that required a more sophisticated multi-layered approach.

Finney Koshy

Finney Koshy

Product

AI 2027: A Non-Technical Founder’s Review
Deep Dive

AI 2027: A Non-Technical Founder’s Review

Welcome to a non-technical founder’s take on the AI timeline that might just become reality...

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI Model Selection: The Overlooked Secret to Better AI Content Creation
Deep Dive

AI Model Selection: The Overlooked Secret to Better AI Content Creation

Learn how different AI models perform for content creation based on our real-world testing. Discover the unique strengths and weaknesses of Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini for producing marketing content.

Finney Koshy

Finney Koshy

Product