Enterprise AI
Deploying AI that ships and shows ROI.
Enterprise AI is the work of putting AI into production inside a business — deployment, governance, security, and measuring return on investment, where reliability and trust matter as much as model quality.
An enterprise deployment needs an account of how the system will be used and evaluated. NIST's AI Risk Management Framework is voluntary guidance for incorporating trustworthiness into AI design, development, use and evaluation (NIST, AI Risk Management Framework). It is a framework for organizing risk work, not a certification that a particular product is safe. For a pilot, record the task owner, permitted data, acceptance criteria and escalation path alongside the model choice.
episode 4 with HP, ServiceNow and Accenture examines why AI projects fail to show a return. Kapil Chhabra in episode 75 discusses maintaining the business context agents need as a company changes. How to measure if AI is paying off starts with a workflow and its baseline; how to govern AI agents covers ownership and operating limits. What it takes to ship AI in a regulated industry follows the deployment evidence.
35 episodes
- For AI Agent Fleets, the Model Is Rarely the Bottleneck | Theory Ventures' Andy Triedman
- Your Best AI Engineer Might Have the Worst Metrics | Sonar CTO Andrea Malagodi
- Why Context Alone Isn't Enough for Enterprise AI Agents | WisdomAI CPO Kapil Chhabra
- Genspark's Bet: AI Agents Become the Users of Software | Wen Sang
- Tuning GPU Performance with AI Agents | AMD’s Anush Elangovan on ROCm 10
- Data Federation, Not Centralization, Is What Enterprise AI Needs | Jitender Aswani, Starburst
- Stop Token Maxxing: Find Where AI Actually Pays Off | Jiaona Zhang, Laurel
- The First Fully Autonomous AI Attack is Coming | Kris Lovejoy, Kyndryl
- The AI Framework Era Is Over: Why Context Is the Moat | Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda
- Every AI Agent Has an Evaluation Gap | Alex Ratner, Snorkel AI
- Why LLMs Are Plausibility Engines, Not Truth Engines | Dan Klein, Scaled Cognition
- How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
- Architecting AI Agents: The Shift from Models to Systems | Aishwarya Srinivasan
- Vercel's Playbook for AI Agents: From Vibe Check to Production | Malte Ubl
- From Demo to Defensibility: How to Build an AI Business that Lasts | Aurimas Griciūnas
- AI's Trillion-Dollar Healthcare Bet | Corti's Andreas Cleve
- Architecting Reliable Agentic AI | Cisco’s Giovanna Carofiglio on the AGNTCY Collective
- The Emerging AI Agent Stack | CrewAI’s João Moura
- AMD's Challenge to NVIDIA: The Open Ecosystem Bet | Anush Elangovan & Sharon Zhou
- Your Key to AI Success is Hiding in Plain Sight | Cohesity's Greg Statton
- The 2025 AI Shift: From Chat to Task Completion & Reliable Action | Galileo Founders
- Why Enterprises Need a Different Approach to AI Agents | Lyzr’s Siva Surendira
- Low-Code AI: From Requirements to Apps in Minutes | OutSystems' Rodrigo Coutinho
- Inside IBM's watsonx: Building Enterprise AI That Ships | Dr. Maryam Ashoori
- Information Symmetry: DevRev's Bet on AI-Driven Enterprise Decisions | Manoj Agarwal
- The Agent Bubble Debate | Spot AI's Kelly Vaughn
- The Making of Gemini 2.0: DeepMind's Approach to AI Development and Deployment | Logan Kilpatrick
- Beyond Chatbots: How Twilio Uses AI to Strengthen Human Connection | Vinnie Giarrusso
- The Enterprise AI Deployment Playbook | ServiceTitan, Indeed & Twilio
- Practical Lessons for GenAI Evals | Chip Huyen & Vivienne Zhang
- Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Show ROI | HP, ServiceNow & Accenture
- GenAI Predictions for 2025 | Databricks & Cohere
- Got Agents? Agentic Workflows & Architecture | Weaviate, Unstructured & CrewAI
- The State of AI: Open-Source Models & Enterprise Trust | May Habib
Explainers on this topic
- Open-Weight vs. Open-Source AI Models
- Semantic Layer vs. Context Layer for AI
- Human in the Loop vs. Human on the Loop
- AI Evals: A Guide for Leaders
- What a Token Is, and Why It Sets Your AI Bill
- Agent Identity and Permissions: The Layer Nobody Built
- When an Open Model Beats a Frontier API on Cost
- Centralizing Data Before AI: Why the Lake Doesn't Save You
- AI Translation: Where Humans Still Sit in the Loop
- Shipping AI in a Regulated Industry
- How to Measure Whether AI Is Actually Paying Off
- Small Language Model vs. Frontier Model
- Fine-Tuning vs. RAG vs. Prompting: How to Choose
- Using AI to Modernize Legacy Code
- How to Cut AI Agent Costs
- How to Govern AI Agents in an Enterprise
- Is the AI Agent Bubble Real?
- Why Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Show ROI
- On-Premise AI for Regulated Enterprises
- 4 Guardrails for Letting Your Whole Company Use AI
- Open vs. Proprietary AI Models: When to Use Which
Terms on this topic
- AI Bubble
- AI Governance
- AI Impact Assessment
- AI Incident
- AI Liability
- AI Pilot (Proof of Concept)
- AI Safety
- AI Slop
- AI Transparency
- AI Watermarking
- AI-Native
- AIOps
- Algorithmic Accountability
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Audit Trail
- Automated Decision-Making
- Automation
- Automation Bias
- Big data
- Content Provenance (C2PA)
- Context Layer
- Continuous Compliance
- Copyright and AI Training
- Data Catalog
- Data Flywheel
- Data Governance
- Data Lake
- Data mining
- Data Pipeline
- Data Provenance
- Data Quality
- Data Sovereignty
- Data Warehouse
- Digital Twin
- Digital Worker
- EU AI Act
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- General-Purpose AI Model (GPAI)
- High-Risk AI System
- Human in the Loop
- Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
- ISO/IEC 42001
- LLM Wrapper
- Model Risk Management
- NIST AI RMF
- On-Premises AI
- Ontology
- PII Redaction
- Policy as Code
- Query Decomposition
- Recommendation System
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Semantic layer
- Shadow AI
- Sovereign AI
- Structured and Unstructured Data
- System of Record
- Token Maxxing
- Token Pricing
Essays on this topic
- Inverting the Innovator's Dilemma with Open Source AI Agents
- Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated.
Guests on this topic
Andy TriedmanAndrea MalagodiKapil ChhabraWen SangAnush ElangovanJitender AswaniJiaona ZhangKris LovejoyJerry LiuTyler AkidauAlex RatnerDan KleinAngie JonesAishwarya SrinivasanMalte UblAurimas GriciūnasAndreas CleveGiovanna CarofiglioJoão MouraSharon ZhouGreg StattonVikram ChatterjiAtindriyo SanyalSiva SurendiraRodrigo CoutinhoMaryam AshooriManoj AgarwalYash ShethKelly VaughnLogan KilpatrickVinnie GiarrussoMehmet Murat EzbiderliGrant LedfordChip HuyenVivienne ZhangAlex KlugSriram PalapudiJay SubrahmoniaSara HookerCraig WileyBrian RaymondBob van LuijtMay Habib