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Engineering · 2026-04-26 · 6 min

Why your AI agent works in the demo and breaks in production.

Most agent demos run for 30 seconds in a sandbox. Production agents have to work for years. Four patterns that hold up.

Engineering · 2026-04-22 · 5 min

RAG is not a product. It's an architecture.

Most teams treat RAG as plumbing. It isn't. The failure modes live in places that never show up in a demo.

Engineering · 2026-04-15 · 5 min

The eval is the product.

Without evals you can't deploy with confidence, can't improve with discipline, can't catch the regression that's about to embarrass you.

Strategy · 2026-04-08 · 6 min

Build, buy, or wait: a framework for enterprise AI investment.

The interesting AI initiatives are never trivially "buy" or "build." They're the ones in between.

Strategy · 2026-04-01 · 6 min

The four ways enterprise AI engagements fail.

Wrong problem, wrong data, wrong adoption, wrong governance. Spotting them early is the difference between deployed and shelved.

Engineering · 2026-03-25 · 5 min

Frontier models vs. open-source: when each one wins.

Most production systems we ship use both. The question isn't "which one." It's "where does each one earn its place."

Strategy · 2026-03-18 · 5 min

What to ask when interviewing an AI consultancy.

Most consultancies sell strategy slides. Three questions separate builders from deck-makers.

Strategy · 2026-03-11 · 5 min

The hidden cost of generic AI SaaS.

You don't pay in license fees. You pay in workflow drift — and that bill compounds.

Tactical · 2026-03-04 · 5 min

How to run an AI proof-of-concept that doesn't waste a quarter.

A POC that can't ship is an expensive demo. Three rules to make yours actually inform the decision.

Product · 2026-02-25 · 5 min

Designing AI for people who hate it.

Frontline workers, clinicians, analysts — the people who actually use enterprise AI often start out skeptical.

Industry · 2026-02-18 · 6 min

Notes from a 200,000-employee frontline AI deployment.

Frontline AI at retail scale isn't a feature. It's a platform decision. Three lessons.

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