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Domain Specific AI Products
AI products built around one industry's actual constraints — its terminology, its compliance requirements, and the systems it already runs on.
Who this is for
- Industries where generic AI tooling misses the domain vocabulary
- Regulated sectors where a general tool cannot meet the requirements
- Businesses whose workflow is specific enough that off-the-shelf does not fit
The problem
General-purpose AI tools are built for the average case, which means they are built for nobody in particular. In a domain with its own vocabulary, its own document types, and its own rules about what may be automated, that gap shows up immediately.
Trade finance is a clear example: an instrument has a precise legal meaning, documents are examined against stated terms, and screening is a regulatory requirement rather than a feature. A tool that does not model any of that is not slightly wrong, it is unusable.
Starting from the constraints
Domain work starts by establishing what is actually non-negotiable — which steps are regulated, which records are auditable, what has to be retained and for how long, and where a human decision is legally or practically required.
Those constraints determine the architecture rather than being retrofitted onto it. A screening step that blocks a workflow has to be modelled as a real state, not as a check that can be skipped when it is inconvenient.
Building on the systems already in place
Domain-specific work almost always means integrating with established systems rather than replacing them. In practice that is contract work in the unglamorous sense: agreeing precisely what each side sends, what it means, and what happens on every path that is not the happy one.
This is where my enterprise background does most of the work — the trade finance systems I have built ran against established banking products under a bank's release process, which is a very different problem from building on a blank page.
What you get
- A documented view of the domain constraints the system must respect
- The product built and integrated with existing systems
- Interface contracts and data-mapping documentation
- Handover with the boundaries written down
Scoped per project — domain work varies too much for a standard range.
When this is the wrong fit
Worth saying plainly rather than finding out after a build starts.
- An off-the-shelf tool already covers the workflow adequately
- The regulatory position on automating the workflow is still unresolved
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