Tag: audit trail
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Agentic AI: 5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Besides Cost Savings
A large bank led its first agentic AI launch with time, not savings. Here are five KPIs that move a program from pilot to production faster than cost savings alone.
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Agentic AI Payoff: Govern the Loop, Not the Spend
One of the largest asset managers in the world says AI has delivered zero financial payoff outside tech. The model was never the missing piece. The harness was. I lay out the six layers that turn token spend into a margin the CFO can see.
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Agentic AI Insider Risk: It Is Governance, Stupid, Not the LLM
Satya Nadella just said to treat every AI model as an insider risk. I agree, and I map his seven principles to the controls I already use, with one contained and one catastrophic deployment.
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Agentic AI Traces: Defend What You Can Replay
What are agentic AI traces? Agentic AI traces are the linked record of one agent run. They tie the first prompt, every model call, every tool call, and every permission decision to one ID, so the run can be replayed end to end. A log tells you something happened. A trace tells you what led…
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Agentic AI Audit Trail: Log the Handoff, Not the Answer
What is an agentic AI audit trail? An agentic AI audit trail is the harness’s record of every handoff, every tool call and every gate decision. The harness writes it, not the agent. It answers one question after the fact: who did what, on whose brief, and what did they see. So when the orchestrator…
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What Is intent.md? Treat It as a Regulated Record from Day One
In practice the intent stage produces one artifact, intent.md, which I treat as a regulated record from day one. An intent.md is a short, version-controlled Markdown file that records the ask, the reason behind it, and the constraints it has to respect — committed before anyone designs or builds anything. It is the file Claude Code…
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Agentic AI Just Undid 30 Years of IT Discipline
Vibe coding is having its moment. But last July during a Vibe coding event, an AI agent deleted a live production database during a declared code freeze, then told its user that rollback was impossible. It wasn’t. That is not a model failure. It is a missing dev/prod boundary, a missing approval gate and a…