I’ve Lived Through a Dozen “Revolutions.” This One Is Different.
I've watched wave after wave of technology reshape the world, and I've learned to tell the real leaps from the hype. This one is different — and the renaissance isn't the machines.…
Developing Infrastructure at the speed of AI
The best enterprise architectures are built by people who understand the platforms they run on.
Essays on agentic AI, enterprise architecture, and the leadership it takes to ship production systems, from two decades in the trenches of enterprise IT.
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The Pilot Worked. Nobody Used It.
A quarter of a million dollars, six months, and a system that promises the outcome you've asked for. What worked…
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Evaluating AI Vendors as a Technical Buyer
Verifying the architecture is necessary but not sufficient. The things that sink an AI vendor relationship in year two are…
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“AI-Powered” Is an Architecture Claim. Verify It Like One.
Underneath every "AI-powered" label sits one of four architectures, each with a different cost curve, latency profile, accuracy ceiling, and…
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Your Data Isn’t the Problem. Your Ingestion Layer Is.
Document ingestion is the number one pain point in small-business operations, and most teams blame the model or the data…