Mugdha Pandit ·
The 90 Minutes That Decide Whether Your AI Program Ships.
A single pre-signing conversation predicts enterprise-AI program survival better than any other procurement signal. Most buyers do not book it.
Index.
Writing on what determines whether AI programs survive year two, and the engineering discipline that makes shipping repeatable.
Kevin Dickerson ·
The Fractional CAIO Playbook.
Most full-time Chief AI Officer hires at this stage will fail. The work is real. The shape of the hire is wrong.
Kevin Dickerson ·
SLOs for Agents.
Most teams measure model quality and ship hoping reliability follows. It does not. Agents need their own signals.
Mugdha Pandit ·
What Cloud Transformation Taught Me About Agentic Programs.
The hardest lessons of enterprise cloud transformation are about to be relearned in AI. Most of them are organisational, not technical.
Kevin Dickerson ·
The Agent ROI Floor.
Most enterprise agent business cases plan against the ceiling. The number that decides whether the program is real is the floor.
Kevin Dickerson ·
What Forward-Deployed Engineering Actually Means.
Most companies claiming the label deliver something else entirely. The real practice has a five-part test.
Kevin Dickerson ·
Build vs. Buy in the Agent Era: A Decision Framework.
The build-vs-buy decision is not about engineering capability. It is about whether you can sustain the thing you build.
Kevin Dickerson ·
Orchestration Is Where Agent Projects Die.
Most agent projects fail in production. The orchestration layer is why.