From Foundation to Production: Discipline Is What Makes AI Compound
Viable placement. Solid foundation. And still - failure in production. The cause is always the same: scope, architecture, and adaptation decisions - never made, made too late, or made poorly.
From Placement to Foundation: Designing AI for Production
The problem is never the AI model. It is the design work that precedes building - problem definition, role design, data strategy. The work most teams skip.
AI Capability Was the Breakthrough. Placement Is the Game.
AI demos impress. Then production: engineering becomes continuous, operational burden grows, and costs compound. The difference is predictable - this framework reveals the forces that determine placement viability before deployment.
