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operations.
6 posts in this archive.
Backup and restore for a KB that contains embeddings
Point-in-time restore, vector consistency, and why we run a full restore drill once a month. The engineering notes on backing up a knowledge base that is half relational and half vector.
The holiday handoff runbook
What to write so the on-call proposal lead isn't paged at 11pm on December 23. A 30-minute template that pays for itself the first time a portal deadline moves.
The Halloween submit weekend triage
Operational note for proposal teams facing weekend deadlines. Three rules we run on every weekend submit. Short, written down so we can find it again next Halloween.
The federal Q1 push: triaging three RFPs at once
The 90-minute drill we use when three federal solicitations drop in the same day. Three buckets, four questions per bid, one written decision. The thing you cannot afford to do on a Friday afternoon in October.
The Saturday backlog triage pattern
Thirty minutes on a Saturday morning, three buckets, and Monday is ready to go. A small operational ritual we use to keep the proposal backlog from compounding into chaos.
DDQ Anatomy, Part 4 of 4: operations and vendor management
The closing section of a vendor DDQ. Incident response from the operational side, business continuity, vendor risk management, and the questions that decide whether you're a vendor procurement will renew.
See the proposal workflow
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