Practical Guides

Guides & playbooks.

Practical, opinionated guides on building with AI — agents, RAG pipelines, model selection, fine-tuning, and cost optimization.

⚡Intermediate

Build Your First AI Agent

From a single LLM call to an autonomous multi-step agent — the practical path.

8 min·5 sections

📚Intermediate

RAG Architecture: Ground AI in Your Data

Build retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that give models access to your documents.

9 min·5 sections

⚖️Beginner

Choosing the Right AI Model

A practical decision framework for matching models to tasks — based on cost, capability, and speed.

7 min·5 sections

🎯Intermediate

Fine-Tuning vs. Prompting

When a well-crafted prompt is enough — and when you genuinely need a custom-trained model.

6 min·5 sections

💰Intermediate

AI Cost Optimization Playbook

Cut your AI API spend by 60–90% without sacrificing quality — techniques that actually work.

7 min·5 sections

🔐Advanced

AI Security: Prompt Injection & Hardening

The attacks that target AI agents in production — and the defences that actually work.

7 min·5 sections

🖼️Beginner

Multimodal AI: Images, Documents, and Vision

How to effectively use AI vision — from screenshots and PDFs to complex document analysis.

6 min·5 sections

📊Intermediate

Finance & FP&A AI Playbook

High-ROI AI applications for financial planning, analysis, and reporting — with prompts that work.

8 min·5 sections

⚖️Intermediate

Legal AI Playbook

Contract review, legal research, and compliance use cases — with the caveats lawyers need to know.

7 min·5 sections

🏥Intermediate

Healthcare AI Playbook

Clinical documentation, research acceleration, and patient communication — with the safety guardrails required.

8 min·5 sections

🎬Intermediate

How to Use Higgsfield with Claude

Connect Higgsfield's image and video models to Claude via MCP and direct cinematic generations from a chat.

7 min·6 sections

🎮Advanced

Build and Auto-Test a Scratch Game with AI

From idea to a real .sb3 file, then a browser agent that plays it back with computer vision — the full pipeline.

14 min·12 sections

Each guide links to related prompts, concepts, tools, and models already in the library.