• Owen Merritt
  • June 26, 2026
  • 8 minutes

When not to use AI

Every vendor pitch ends the same way: AI will save you time, money, and competitive ground. What they don't say is that more than 80% of AI projects fail.
  • Roger R.
  • May 30, 2026
  • 8 minutes

How to audit your AI readiness

Most companies skip the AI readiness audit. They pick a use case, sign a contract, and start building. Six months later the project is shelved: the data wasn't usable, the team didn't have the skills to maintain what got built,
  • Owen Merritt
  • May 22, 2026
  • 10 minutes

Why your AI agent keeps failing (and how skills fix it)

You gave your AI agent a goal, a set of tools, and enough context to get started. In testing it was impressive — it planned multi-step tasks, called APIs, drafted outputs, and handed off cleanly.
  • Roger R.
  • April 13, 2026
  • 4 minutes

AI vs. Machine learning: What's the difference?

"Artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" get used as if they mean the same thing. They don't. The distinction matters whether you're evaluating a product, planning a career, or making sense of the headlines.
  • Roger R.
  • April 1, 2026
  • 5 minutes

Why AI makes things up (and what you can do about it)

You ask an AI chatbot a straightforward question. It responds with a confident, well-structured answer that sounds completely plausible. There's just one problem: part of it is fabricated. The citation doesn't exist. The statistic is invented. The person it quoted never said that.