A technology company founder with one belief — the best time to build for a trend is before everyone sees it.
15+ years running Entexis. Sits with founders and CTOs from the first scoping call through launch and beyond. Owns the quality bar every engagement is held to, and stays hands-on in the calls where the important decisions get made.
Production AI without evaluation is production AI you hope is working. The 3 evaluation dimensions every system needs (retrieval, faithfulness, end-task accuracy), the 5 patterns that keep evaluation continuous, and the 4-layer architecture.
Your CFO will ask 5 specific questions about AI in 2027. The 4 audit artifacts that answer them and the artifact chain pipeline that turns the audit into a database query.
Most mid-market AI use cases under 100k chunks do not need a vector database. The 3 architecture patterns (in-memory, embedded, dedicated), the 5 selection criteria when you do need one, and the architecture that makes vector storage decisions reversible.
RAG and fine-tuning solve different problems but most teams treat them as interchangeable. RAG wins 85-90% of mid-market use cases; fine-tuning wins for domain language, format conformance, latency bounds. The 3 cases fine-tuning wins, 5 RAG patterns, 4-layer architecture.
Hotels are using AI to replace 40% of operational headcount in specific categories while keeping guest satisfaction stable. The 5 workflows, integration patterns, and workforce transition discipline.
Production AI is not a hardened prototype; it is a different architecture with 7 explicit layers. The data, model abstraction, retrieval, prompts, evaluation, cost, and observability layers prevent specific failure modes. Build them from day 1 or rewrite within 12 months.
Most legacy modernization plans are scoped as code rewrites. The 2026 reality: 60 to 80% of legacy workflows should be replaced or augmented with AI, not rewritten.
The 2026 answer for most operations workflows is not Excel replacement. It is AI wrapped around the spreadsheets your team already knows. The 4 quadrants, 5 patterns, and the hub architecture that scales.
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