Embedding pipelines are the new ETL

I’ve seen a lot of promising AI prototypes fall apart after launch. And it’s rarely because the model was bad. More often, the problem starts much earlier; teams treat the data layer like something they can figure out later. They’ll spend weeks fine-tuning prompts,...

The real cost of agentic AI

Agentic AI has moved from conference hype to a budget line item. This is where the conversation gets more interesting and more uncomfortable. Unlike traditional AI systems that respond to a single prompt, classify a document, recommend an action, or generate a...