https://site.fredlab.dev/contributors/timoth%C3%A9-le-chatelier/Recent content in Timothé Le Chatelier on FredHugoenCopyright (c) 2020-2024 ThuliteFri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/excel-but-agent-ready-how-fred-turns-spreadsheets-into-queryable-knowledge/Excel is not a document — it’s a data source wearing a document’s clothes. Here is how Fred rebuilds the structure of a workbook deterministically, hands the agent a global map plus queryable tables, and adds a server-side value locator that collapses a dozen blind queries into a single targeted one.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ingestion-shouldnt-be-a-choice/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ingestion-shouldnt-be-a-choice/A look at why three ingestion modes create more problems than they solve, how the PDF extraction pipeline was rebuilt to be ten times faster with 90% fewer LLM calls, and the unified ingestion architecture that points toward removing the choice entirely.