Glossary · Building
noun
Further training a model on your own examples to change its behaviour. Most businesses get what they need faster and more cheaply with good instructions, Projects, Skills and retrieval instead.
In practice
Fine-tuning sounds like the obvious way to make AI fit your business, but it is rarely the first step. Most of what businesses want, such as their tone of voice, their formats and knowledge of their products, can be achieved with clear instructions, Projects, Skills and retrieval from their own documents. These are faster, cheaper and easier to update when things change.
Usually not at first. Try good instructions, Projects, Skills and retrieval from your own documents. Fine-tuning is worth considering only for specialised, high-volume tasks where those approaches have clearly fallen short.
From AI curious to AI capable
Start with an audit. You will know exactly where AI fits, what to do first and what it should give back. Your report looks something like this.
Prepared for
your business
What Claude can really do
Contents
Every opportunity mapped, scored and turned into a costed Claude roadmap.