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Dispatches

DispatchesDispatches From the Swamp

Short essays from execution. What worked, what didn’t, and why.Field notes from waist-deep in delivery. Wipe your feet.

  1. Agentic AI is a process decision, not a model decision

    Whether an agent pays depends on which process it joins and who owns that process. The model comes later.

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  2. Give your agent a job description

    Before an agent touches a live system, write down what it may decide, what it may touch and when it must hand over. Then hire it on probation.

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  3. Count the pilots you stopped

    One of the most useful AI metrics is the number of pilots you ended on purpose.

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  4. A Lighthouse is a template, not a trophy

    The World Economic Forum recognition was nice. The part that mattered was what the next thirteen sites could copy.

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  5. Data sovereignty is a design decision

    Where your data lives and who can move it is settled in the architecture. Finding out in the audit is the expensive way.

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