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The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Enterprise Apps & AI

Jul 21, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Agentic AI doesn't answer. It acts. Here's the rollout that earns it the right to — one rung at a time.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
Your AI dashboard is green. Your deployment might be dying.

Frameworks

Jul 14, 2026

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3 min read

Your AI dashboard is green. Your deployment might be dying.

The metrics that make an AI look good in a demo are almost never the ones that tell you it's earning its keep in production.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
Four ways implementations go sideways — and the early warning sign for each

Field Notes

Jul 7, 2026

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2 min read

Four ways implementations go sideways — and the early warning sign for each

Most failed implementations were diagnosable months before go-live. The warning signs are boring, repeatable, and easy to miss when you're heads-down shipping.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
The AI deployment that earns money — and the one that doesn't

Enterprise Apps & AI

Jun 30, 2026

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2 min read

The AI deployment that earns money — and the one that doesn't

They cost about the same to build. One pays for itself in a quarter; the other becomes a line item nobody will defend. The difference isn't the model.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
Four Kinds of Resistance ... And The One Leaders Keep Excusing

Leadership

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

Four Kinds of Resistance ... And The One Leaders Keep Excusing

Issues #1–3 covered the decisions leaders make. This one is about the people who absorb them - why the loudest resister is often right, and why one kind of pushback isn't information at all.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
Three AI questions every mid-market IT leader is wrestling with

Industry Intel

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Three AI questions every mid-market IT leader is wrestling with

At a recent industry roundtable, the AI questions practitioners actually ask landed in three areas — and the honest answers are not always the ones that are led with.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
Five questions before you sign the SOW (and the answers that protect both sides)

Frameworks

Jun 9, 2026

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3 min read

Five questions before you sign the SOW (and the answers that protect both sides)

Issue #1 named the two disciplines mid-market skips. This is the operating manual for the second one — without the vendor-versus-customer framing.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick
When the platform still earns: two disciplines mid-market skips

Field Notes

Jun 2, 2026

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2 min read

When the platform still earns: two disciplines mid-market skips

Why your platform replacement earns less than the one it replaced — and the two artifacts that prevent it.

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick

Plant Floor to Cloud

Weekly field notes from the practitioner side of manufacturing IT
Enterprise Apps, AI, and the messy middle between the plant floor and the cloud.

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