Diagram showing the operating gap between an AI POC and production AI

From AI POC to production: the part teams keep skipping

The AI POC is not the hard part anymore. The hard part is turning a promising demo into a service with ownership, evals, traces, cost controls, and a rollback path.

May 12, 2026 · 7 min · 1336 words · Thomas De Vos
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Diagram showing metric-only LLM observability versus a replayable production AI trace

LLM observability is not a dashboard. It is a replayable trail.

A latency chart will not explain why an AI answer was wrong. Production LLM systems need traces, sources, tool calls, prompt versions, eval results, and human decisions.

May 10, 2026 · 4 min · 812 words · Thomas De Vos
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Diagram showing that AI agents in financial services need controls before autonomy

AI agents in financial services need controls before autonomy

Financial-services AI agents can be useful, but autonomy without permissions, audit trails, segregation, evals, and rollback is just operational risk with a nicer interface.

May 9, 2026 · 5 min · 891 words · Thomas De Vos
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