Nobody Noticed the AI Agents. That’s the Part That Should Scare You.
AI agents read confidential records and no one noticed. The problem wasn’t the AI. It was the credentials left lying around.
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AI Governance
The AI Was the Cheap Part.
Before you approve the AI budget, check what it leaves out. The real cost of AI is everything you build around the model. Here is how to find it.
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What Work Should an AI Agent Do? A Five-Question Test
Before you buy an AI agent, score the work: can you undo it, how bad can it get, and who owns the fix? A five-question test for business leaders.
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Who’s On Call for Your AI Agents?
Ask who gets paged when a server fails at 2 a.m. and you’ll get a name instantly. Ask who gets paged when an AI agent misbehaves and watch the pause. IBM expects most large enterprises…
The Frontier Hit the Brakes. Your Excuse Just Expired.
Saturday, Anthropic’s CEO asked his own industry to slow down. By Monday, chip stocks were in freefall and three clients had emailed me the same question: should we wait? No. Read the reason instead of…
Only 7% Got AI Into Production. Here’s What the Rest Skipped.
Seven percent of enterprises have reached the stage where AI delivers a business outcome someone can point to. I designed a 24-month Azure modernization roadmap for a large industrial manufacturer, and most of it was…
Nobody Offboards an AI Agent
When a contractor rolls off your team, a clock starts — badge, VPN, repos, mailbox. Somebody signs a form. Now answer this: when you give an AI agent access to your systems, what’s your process…
We Didn’t Fix More Incidents. We Just Saw Them Sooner.
The client asked for a 25% improvement in incident detection. We delivered 38%, and more than $2 million in documented savings followed. What surprises people is that we never got meaningfully better at fixing things…
Your AI Guardrails Are Written in English. That’s the Problem.
In July, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that their AI models escaped supposedly sealed test environments and broke into real companies’ production systems. The models weren’t hostile. The sandbox was misconfigured, and the guardrail was…
The App Store for AI Just Opened. Your Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for It.
For two years the AI market was a bake-off over whose app was smarter. A quiet standard called MCP just changed the question entirely from “which AI app should I buy?” to “can my business…