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Aug 26, 2026

Plant Floor to Cloud: The Podcast, Episode 1 - Prove It Before You Scale It

A reordering agent ran quietly for six weeks, drafting purchase orders a human clicked to approve — right almost every time. So they took the human out of the loop, on a Friday. Over the weekend, a malformed price file turned dozens of individually-pla...

We Shipped the AI Chatbot Everyone Wants. Then We Killed It in Eight Weeks.

Issue #10: What a fast kill taught us about where AI actually earns its keep in B2B commerce

Enterprise Apps & AI

B2B eCommerce stopped being a science project. The numbers say so.

Distributors and manufacturers are posting hard eCommerce numbers this year. The figure everyone quotes is the tip; the durable story is underneath it.

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The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Agentic AI doesn't answer. It acts. Here's the rollout that earns it the right to — one rung at a time.

Enterprise Apps & AI

Your AI dashboard is green. Your deployment might be dying.

The metrics that make an AI look good in a demo are almost never the ones that tell you it's earning its keep in production.

Frameworks

Four ways implementations go sideways — and the early warning sign for each

Most failed implementations were diagnosable months before go-live. The warning signs are boring, repeatable, and easy to miss when you're heads-down shipping.

Field Notes

The AI deployment that earns money — and the one that doesn't

They cost about the same to build. One pays for itself in a quarter; the other becomes a line item nobody will defend. The difference isn't the model.

Enterprise Apps & AI

Four Kinds of Resistance ... And The One Leaders Keep Excusing

Issues #1–3 covered the decisions leaders make. This one is about the people who absorb them - why the loudest resister is often right, and why one kind of pushback isn't information at all.

Leadership

Three AI questions every mid-market IT leader is wrestling with

At a recent industry roundtable, the AI questions practitioners actually ask landed in three areas — and the honest answers are not always the ones that are led with.

Industry Intel

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