Field Notes from Kohala — practical perspectives on AI Agents for business operations, finance, and marketing, alongside essays on live data, the AI-native web, and how teams build and operate autonomous workflows.
Why the gap between an impressive demo and an enterprise you can bet on is an operating model, not a better model. The Agentic Enterprise: A Reference Architecture for Operational AI · Part 1 of 2 Every board has seen the demo. Someone, a vendor, a skunk works team, a sharp VP wi…
From Headcount to Agent Count, the Agentic Takeover of the Software Delivery Pipeline AI workforce exposure by sector Whether you run technology for a global bank, a healthcare system, a logistics company, or a retailer operating across twenty countries, your software delivery mo…
How breakthroughs in foundation models, AI infrastructure, and ecosystem dynamics reshaped the competitive landscape and set the trajectory for the next decade. Looking back at the year, it feels like the unease related to the latest wave of investments in AI around LLMs is reach…
Accelerating growth and Managing costs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence For decades, business software has operated as a rigid executor of human-defined rules. It is bench marked for efficiency, repeatability, and predictability. But in the age of artificial intelligence, th…
Act2: Where does Generative AI go from here? An artist’s illustration of artificial intelligence (AI) The future of AI has sparked a wide spectrum of opinions, ranging from optimistic to cautious and even critical, with each perspective grounded in different views on its impact,…
From the Silk Road to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the past, present and future of Commerce Platforms Commerce has been around since the early days of society and civilized life. This is a brief window into the world of Commerce Platforms, to put in perspective the infrastr…
From presenting insights to automating complex actions Aerial Shot of a Freighter with Cargo Containers From the Boardroom to the Kitchen Table Supply Chain disruption has become a kitchen table topic in the past 3–4 years thanks to some very high profile disruptions of global sc…