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Avoid AI budget waste in 2026. Use this practical guide to plan investments that produce measurable business impact.
Nick Chase
December 30, 2025

Planning AI Investments That Actually Pay Off in 2026

In 2026, AI spending scrutiny will rise. This guide helps organizations plan AI investments that survive CFO review, avoid pilot purgatory, and deliver compounding ROI through clear outcomes, defined metrics, and scalable foundations.

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AI won’t reward hype in 2026. Learn how to avoid pilot purgatory, vendor failures, and data misuse with this field guide.
Nick Chase
December 28, 2025

What Companies Will Get Wrong About AI in 2026

This guide outlines seven key mistakes enterprises will make with AI in 2026—from overvaluing tools to skipping governance—and offers practical, operations-first advice to help teams turn AI from a buzzword into sustained business value.

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Discover how AI coding tools reshape the software development life cycle (SDLC). Learn the benefits, risks, and best practices for using AI effectively without creating technical debt.
Nick Chase
September 30, 2025

AI Can’t Build Good Software By Itself. Here's Why, and What You Can Do About It.

AI is changing how we write and maintain code. But without the right guardrails, AI-powered SDLC can become a “$6 haircut.” Learn where AI helps, where it fails, and how to adopt it responsibly.

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Executives drown in dashboards but still lack a single view of the business. Here’s why fragmented data models drift from the business model—and how knowledge models create clarity, consistency, and trust in enterprise analytics.
David Fishman
September 2, 2025

How Your Business Model Got Lost in Your Data Model – and where to find it

Dashboards don’t align, AI misleads, and ERP models drift from the business itself. Knowledge models restore clarity by encoding shared meaning at the core of analytics.

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Most AI agents are over-engineered for real business needs. Learn how SMBs can save costs and reduce risks by matching automation complexity to actual requirements with human-in-the-loop strategies.
Nick Chase
September 2, 2025

The AI Agent Complexity Trap: A Decision Framework for SMBs

A guide to building AI agents that fit business needs—simple, reliable, and cost-effective instead of over-engineered.

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A step-by-step framework helping business leaders choose the right AI approach—from automation to foundation models—while ensuring governance, compliance, and sustainable business value.
Nick Chase
September 1, 2025

The AI Implementation Spectrum: A Decision Framework for Business Leaders

A practical decision framework to guide AI adoption, align technology with business needs, and build governance for long-term success.

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Discover why small language models deliver faster, cheaper, and more secure AI solutions for business. Learn how right-sizing AI creates efficiency, privacy, and sustainable competitive advantage
Nick Chase
August 27, 2025

Right-Sized AI: When Small Language Models Beat the Giants

Smaller AI models can outperform industry giants by offering speed, efficiency, privacy, and adaptability for real-world business use.

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CloudGeometry integrates AI agents directly into Slack, cutting friction and boosting productivity with HR, content, and sales enablement automation.
Carter Holmes
August 21, 2025

Why We Put AI Agents Where Our Team Already Lives: CloudGeometry's AI-First Transformation

Discover how CloudGeometry boosts productivity by embedding AI agents directly in Slack, streamlining HR, content, and sales operations.

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Discover how AWS Bedrock Agents help automate AI model documentation at scale. Part 1 of this series explores their role in solving real-world challenges in model openness.
Nick Chase
July 31, 2025

What are AWS Bedrock Agents? Documenting model openness in 3 parts: Part 1, Introduction

Explore how AWS Bedrock Agents help solve the complex challenge of maintaining up-to-date AI model data at scale using open-source tools like Mistral.

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Not all technical debt is created equal. Learn how to distinguish revenue-blocking strategic debt from engineering noise—and prioritize tech investments that actually grow the business.
Nick Chase
July 30, 2025

Strategic Debt vs. Stupid Debt: The Prioritization Framework Your Board Needs

Stop treating all tech debt equally. Learn how to identify and eliminate the technical constraints that are blocking revenue, deals, and innovation.

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AI success isn’t about buying tools — it’s about building long-term capability. Learn why real transformation means owning your AI agent platform, not renting “smart” features from vendors.
Michael Philip
July 28, 2025

AI Business Transformation Isn’t a Leap, It’s a Natural Evolution

Why real AI transformation means evolving your systems — not just adding AI features. Discover why agent platforms are becoming the new enterprise core.

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Confused by AI agents? Learn the 5 types—Simple Reflex to Learning Agents—and how to match the right one to your business challenges. Avoid costly mistakes with this strategic guide.
Nick Chase
July 23, 2025

5 Types of AI Agents Every Business Leader Should Understand

Avoid AI overkill (or underkill). This guide breaks down the 5 AI agent types every business leader should understand—and when to use each one for maximum impact.

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Discover how new AI agent protocols—Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and Networked Agents and Decentralized AI (NANDA)—are redefining the future of AI infrastructure. Learn why adopting these standards is critical for scalable, composable,
Nick Chase
June 30, 2025

Building AI Agent Infrastructure: MCP, A2A, NANDA, and the New Web Stack

Explore how MCP, A2A, and NANDA are setting new standards for scalable, composable, and interoperable AI agent infrastructure, ushering in the next era of the intelligent web stack.

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Is it true that artificial intelligence can make business intelligence a little bit more... well, intelligent? The challenge: Get system data from one business process to tell you more about your other systems and business processes — using reports and dashboards you already have (even unstructured data). Rewatch experts Rob Giardina of Claritype Founder and Nick Chase of Cloudgeometry in a deep dive unlock the power of LLMs with a Standardized Data Model.
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This three-part series introduces the principles of securing AI systems. It covers foundational AI security concepts, provides a strategic overview of secure GenAI system deployment, and addresses future-proofing techniques to ensure safe and resilient AI architectures.
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