Free Lesson
Choose RAG Fine-Tuning or the API
30 min
Oct 11, 2026 7:00 PM
What you'll learn
Match the technique to the problem shape
Run your use case through a decision tree that gives a defensible answer
Estimate the true cost of each option
Include maintenance and drift, not just the build, before you commit.
Recognise when to just call the API
Spot the cases where the simplest option is genuinely the right one.
Why this topic matters
Three options, and teams pick wrong then spend months finding out. One company builtan orchestration layer for nine months and scrapped it, concluding they should have justcalled an API. The decision is not about sophistication, it is about the shape of theproblem, and there is a straightforward way to tell which one you have.
