How to scope a forward deployed engineering engagement
Eight contract steps for a forward deployed engineering engagement - outcome, access, ownership, shadow, platform, checks, price and exit. With a checklist.
Governance and risk
Guardrails, audit trails, compliance (ISO 27001, HIPAA, EU AI Act) and the controls that let an enterprise trust an agent.
The framework behind this pillar: Agentic in Production.
What "production-grade" actually means for an AI agent
Production-grade is a checklist, not a feeling. Five tests an enterprise AI agent must pass, on refusals, traces, ownership, budget and evaluation.
How to make your business agent-ready
Eight steps that let AI agents find, buy from and get help from your business as customers, with a scorecard, disqualifiers and a checklist for this quarter.
Single agent vs multi-agent AI: how CTOs should choose
Single agent or multi-agent? Atallah says ten specialists beat one superagent. Masad runs one agent across Replit. Here's how CTOs should choose.
Agent harness playbook: let the model choose, not act
How to add a decision layer to an agent harness without handing the model authority. Eight steps for a CoE or R&D team, the risks, the compliance checks, a lab.
The approver who said yes 1,900 times
A payables agent stopped and asked a human 1,900 times in three weeks. By week three the human said yes in four seconds, once to a changed bank account.
SDLC vs AI-DLC: why technology leaders are switching
A working guide to AI-DLC for CTOs and VPs of Engineering - what changes at each stage, what it returns, what goes wrong, and how to explain it to your board.
How to evaluate an agentic AI vendor
Seven steps to evaluate an agentic AI vendor before you sign - refusals, evaluation set, traces, cost per run, compliance, ownership, pilot. With a checklist.