AI Pilot Purgatory Is an Orchestration Failure
Most AI initiatives don’t die in the model. They die in the seams between teams.
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AI-implementation
Golden Evaluation Sets: Enterprise AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
AI moves fastest in software engineering for a structural reason: the model tests its own output instantly. Write code, run it, see if it breaks, iterate in ...
No SOP, No AI Use Case
It’s simple: no documented workflow, no AI use case.
Evaluation-driven multi model/tool path to 5-10x gains
An AI tool was producing subpar results. We flipped the script, achieving a 5x accuracy lift and a 10x productivity gain.
The Enterprise AI Pyramid
The Enterprise AI Pyramid
Workflow Automation 2.0: Marrying Hard-Coded Logic with Adaptive AI
In a recent AI brainstorming workshop with a client, one set of opportunities leapt out: automating complex, multi-step workflows. Nearly three-quarters (72 ...
The Hypothesis-Driven Approach to AI Development
“You can’t roadmap what hasn’t yet been discovered,” - @Bryan Bischof. Apple’s recent retrenchment from its ambitious AI strategy is a case in point.
Is AI project abandonment bad?
Klarna recently announced that their effort to deliver customer support mostly via AI went too far, and they are hiring human support staff to augment AI’s s...
Leading enterprises aren’t scrapping their proven systems for AI — they’re creating powerful hybrids that outperform either approach alone
Leading enterprises aren’t scrapping their proven systems for AI—they’re creating powerful hybrids that outperform either approach alone.
Test AI On Your Terms, Not Theirs
The New York Times reports that AI is getting more powerful, but its hallucinations are getting worse. It turns out that non-reasoning models are improving, ...
Organizations pursuing artificial intelligence face a stark reality. WSJ
While AI experimentation abounds, achieving enterprise-wide results demands methodical implementation and systematic scaling. Despite 78% of companies using ...
TWIX: Reconstructing Structured Data from Templatized Documents. UC Berkeley EPIC Lab
Extracting good data out of complex PDFs is a fundamental challenge and will take multiple approaches. This UC Berkeley team turned the problem upside down, ...
Wells Fargo demonstrates enterprise AI success
Wells Fargo demonstrates enterprise AI success with 245 million secure customer interactions in 2024.
How data and AI create competitive advantage
Leading organizations are transforming their market positions by strategically deploying artificial intelligence against unique data assets.
Seven ways generative AI drives B2B sales growth. McKinsey
McKinsey’s B2B sales case studies show how targeted AI deployment can transform relationship-focused “farmers” into proactive “hunters” while delivering meas...
Insights on why OpenAI’s 4o Image Generation is a BIG deal
“Our servers are melting”, Sam Altman. Insights on why OpenAI’s 4o Image Generation is a BIG deal and a hack to get coax images out of OpenAI.
9 enterprise takeaways from NVIDIA’s 2025 GTC. Bain & Co
NVIDIA’s GTC conference revealed how organizations are fundamentally transforming their operations through AI. Bain’s analysis highlights that leading firms ...
AI-strategy
AI Is Graduating from Pilots to Production — and the Data Shows What Separates Leaders
Bain’s longitudinal AI executive survey found that 80% of generative AI use cases met or exceeded expectations — yet only 23% of companies can tie those init...
How I Stay on Top of AI: My Curated Podcast and Newsletter Sources
I get asked how I stay on top of AI developments. Here’s my 3-step system for tracking AI insights, plus my full curated list of top podcasts and newsletters.
When Killing an AI Project Is the Right Call
A client recently killed an AI initiative targeting invoice processing. It was a good decision.
AI serving the digitally neglected
“I’m just thrilled that someone is paying attention to my department.”
The Chief AI Officer Advantage: Deconstructing the 36% ROI Lift
With CAIOs in centralized models doubling AI production rates and achieving a 36% higher ROI, it’s clear why the role’s adoption has doubled to 26% in the la...
How to Strategically Curate AI Use Cases
We started with 30+ AI use cases. The best 5 made the cut. Here’s how a curated approach sets up better outcomes.
The Enterprise AI Pyramid
The Enterprise AI Pyramid
Leading companies apply portfolio theory to AI investments
Most companies form business strategy around a portfolio of investments and activities. Executives strive to grow consistently by maximizing existing busines...
A harbinger of companies expanding in the age of AI? Deloitte deploys its finance and accounting expertise and leverages NVIDIA’s ecosystem to enter the AI agent space
A harbinger of companies expanding in the age of AI? Deloitte deploys its finance and accounting expertise and leverages NVIDIA’s ecosystem to enter the AI a...
Strategic AI investments reveal industry-specific paths to competitive advantage. Accenture
Leading companies are aggressively pushing beyond basic LLM integration, making calculated investments in AI that sharpen their competitive edge. These strat...
production-AI
AI Pilot Purgatory Is an Orchestration Failure
Most AI initiatives don’t die in the model. They die in the seams between teams.
Golden Evaluation Sets: Enterprise AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
AI moves fastest in software engineering for a structural reason: the model tests its own output instantly. Write code, run it, see if it breaks, iterate in ...
AI Is Graduating from Pilots to Production — and the Data Shows What Separates Leaders
Bain’s longitudinal AI executive survey found that 80% of generative AI use cases met or exceeded expectations — yet only 23% of companies can tie those init...
How to achieve strong AI performance — diligence
At Ritchie Bros, a $ 4 B+ equipment auctioneer, we built an ML system “Algo” to automatically value assets from a few dollars to $ 100 K+ (think Zillow for e...
How to Construct Domain Specific LLM Evaluation Systems: Hamel Husain and Emil Sedgh
Success with LLM systems takes work. Very helpful short video on the experience implementing evals at Rechat.com.
AI use cases
The first rule of AI use case discovery? Don’t talk about AI.
The first rule of AI use case discovery? Don’t talk about AI.
AI shows promise reading and analyzing arcane contracts to unlock savings. McKinsey
The complexity of matching and analyzing contracts and invoices lends itself to AI. McKinsey covers the impact they are seeing.
How data and AI create competitive advantage
Leading organizations are transforming their market positions by strategically deploying artificial intelligence against unique data assets.
state-of-ai
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard
Hallucination leaderboard for top 25 LLMs providing factually consistent answers based on short text RAG extraction.
Stanford HAI — 2025 Artificial Intelligence Index Report Permalink
Comprehensive 456 page report on the state of AI.
KPMG Q1 2025 AI Pulse Permalink
93% of leaders agree that investments to-date in GenAI have allowed their company to enhance its competitive position and long-term strategic performance.
AI vendors
Distillation of the 50 ‘top’ AI vendors? Forbes, Sequoia, Meritech
The AI vendor world has exploded with options and is perplexing. It’s hard to understand who is a leading provider and will survive.
Will the new Anthropic and Databricks agent-based partnership meet enterprise needs?
Will the new Anthropic and Databricks agent-based partnership meet enterprise needs?
AI State of the World
AI State of the World. Simon Willison
If you’re tracking LLMs and AI developments, check out this punchy, state-of-the-world presentation from AI and technology insider Simon Willison at NICAR 20...
models
Seeing is believing: examples of how new imaging LLMs change the game for better and worse
Use cases for AI have felt elusive at times. Not so for the new autoregressive image making from OpenAI and Google. Getting specific imagery, including corre...
change management
What gets measured, gets done: Shopify makes AI usage mandatory
What gets measured, gets done: Shopify makes AI usage mandatory
projects
How I built this GitHub pages site using Codespace
How I built this site using GitHub Pages and Jekyll
Business strategy
Leading companies apply portfolio theory to AI investments
Most companies form business strategy around a portfolio of investments and activities. Executives strive to grow consistently by maximizing existing busines...