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Notes from the field

What actually works when AI meets production — implementation strategy, engineering practice, and the economics underneath.

01

Enterprise AI Implementation Strategy: The 2026 Playbook

A step-by-step AI implementation strategy for enterprises: how to pick the first use case, set ROI targets, choose build vs. buy, and ship to production in one quarter.

Enterprise AIStrategy
Jul 2, 2026
4 min read
02

Why Most AI Pilots Never Reach Production — and How to Ship Yours

Most enterprise AI pilots die before deployment. Here are the five failure patterns I've seen in 11 years of shipping production AI, and how to avoid each one.

Enterprise AIImplementation
Jun 18, 2026
5 min read
03

How to Measure Enterprise AI ROI: A Framework With Real Numbers

A practical framework for calculating AI return on investment — with real figures from deployments that saved $10M+ in cloud spend and cut contract review from hours to minutes.

ROI & MetricsEnterprise AI
May 22, 2026
4 min read
04

Computer Vision for Security: How Real-Time Threat Detection Works in Production

Inside a production computer vision pipeline: pose estimation, temporal transformers, and the dataset engineering that makes real-time threat detection actually work.

Computer VisionEngineering
Apr 14, 2026
4 min read
05

Fine-Tuning vs. API Calls: When Should You Own Your AI Models?

Per-token APIs are the right start and the wrong destination. A cost and control framework for deciding when to fine-tune and self-host — from building Aldea's voice AI stack.

LLM StrategyInfrastructure
Mar 9, 2026
4 min read
06

AI Workflow Automation: Turning Models Into Business Systems That Pay for Themselves

Individual AI models are not products. A practical guide to AI workflow orchestration — connecting vision, language, and predictive models into automation that runs a business.

AutomationEnterprise AI
Feb 11, 2026
4 min read