Rent the AI engine. Keep what it learns.
4 things your firm should keep:
1. Your workflows
2. Your data
3. The freedom to swap models
4. A record of every action
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An AI agent once deleted 4 of our servers to finish a task faster. No ask, no pause.
Ravi Bhagavatula calls the fix bounded agency: limit what AI can do so humans keep control.
The 6 controls every AI deployment needs 👇
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#AIGovernance #AIAgents
AI platforms can automate almost anything, then hand you a blank config screen. That's where AI adoption stalls.
Build workflows by describing them instead:
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Everyone's asking if AI is a bubble. Wrong question.
Bubble or not, AI isn't going away. The winners will pair it with human judgment.
New blog, inspired by my talk with Wharton's Andre Chulo 👇
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#AI #AIStrategy #HumanInTheLoop
The Danger of Forced AI Adoption
Just because you CAN implement AI doesn't mean you SHOULD. Companies pushing AI on employees without buy-in are seeing backlash, burnout, and bigger problems down the road. Here's why forcing AI adoption is a leadership failure.
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What if your biggest AI problem isn't the tech—it's everything else? Former CEO/COO Alan MacAulay on why you need to fix your operating model BEFORE adding AI. Demanding ROI from vendors isn't optional—it's survival. 🎧 new ep #TheHumanCode #AI
A tool cut route selection from 4 hours to 10 minutes.
The driver refused to use it. Not ignorance — care. He'd picked those machines himself for years.
The technology is the easy part. Changing behavior is the hard part.
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The AI Memory Trap: Why Your Frontier Model Vendor Is Becoming Your Most Dangerous Dependency
While you debate which AI model is "smartest," frontier labs are fighting for something more valuable: your firm's institutional memory.
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"A false positive cancer diagnosis is not a typo. It is a trauma."
Dr. Jade Zhou on what makes AI trustworthy in healthcare: high confidence means nothing without traceable evidence and a clinician making the final call.
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We have plenty of engineers. Plenty of MBAs.
What we don't have: people who think in systems.
That gap is why most AI implementations fail.
Business schools and CS programs both leave out the same thing: seeing the whole.
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We're running a dark factory.
30-40 PRs merged to main every day. Zero human touch in the pipeline. Issue → code → review → deployment. All automated.
Most companies are at automation level 1-2. We're at level 3-4.
This isn't a demo. It's our actual
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The vending industry figured out AI deployment before the consultants.
Their lesson: AI is a calibrated instrument, not a light switch.
Models need tuning. Humans need oversight. Deployment is a practice, not a project.
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"Auditors want evidence, not your word."
That sentence would have saved us a lot of time.
Most teams start their first SOC 2 cycle writing policies. Policies are the easy part. The audit is about proving the controls actually ran.
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"I don't need your intelligence anymore. I have that on a computer chip. What I need is your judgment."
AI didn't take your job. It took your homework.
What's left is what clients were always paying for:
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Keycloak vs authentik comparisons usually weigh setup time and RAM.
Neither matters if you're heading into SOC 2.
We compared audit evidence, IaC, and agent auth:
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The AI demo looked perfect.
Smooth. Impressive. "We'll take it."
6 weeks later: a model update broke the dashboard. A new integration took the whole system offline. Testing one component meant testing everything.
The problem wasn't the AI.
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When Crane bought Irvin and Millpoint bought Embera, they didn't just acquire market share.
They acquired every legacy system those companies ran. 🧵
The smart cooler/vending consolidation wave is heating up—365 + Cantaloupe just closed their merger.
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The AI vendor you choose today isn't just a tool decision. It's an infrastructure commitment that compounds over 5-10 years.
Most enterprise buyers won't feel the weight of that decision until they're already locked in.
Before you commit, ask your vendor
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Most AI products hide what they are.
That kills user trust.
Two sentences fixed it for us:
"I'm an AI assistant. Here's what I do with your data — okay?"
23% more completed conversations.
18% less abandonment.
Builds trust:
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Your NDA doesn't protect your AI data.
Your privacy policy probably doesn't either.
We heard about a startup that lost $10M because their "protections" didn't cover AI training.
The lesson: if it's not in writing, it doesn't exist.
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