Cost, Latency, and ROI of AI Systems
A practical framework for understanding the economic trade-offs of AI systems, including model cost, response speed, review effort, and business payoff.
A practical framework for understanding the economic trade-offs of AI systems, including model cost, response speed, review effort, and business payoff.
A practical decision ladder for choosing between rules, RPA, traditional machine learning, LLM workflows, and agent-like systems.
A plain-English guide to the main layers of a modern AI system, from models and prompts to retrieval, tools, guardrails, and review.
A practical guide to the most common ways AI systems fail in business settings, and how to design review controls before those failures become operational problems.
A curated guide to textbooks, authors, websites, and papers for readers who want to study transformer internals, attention math, fine-tuning, GPU optimization, and benchmarking in more depth.
How to design access controls, prompt/output logging, and retention rules for AI systems so governance remains practical, auditable, and proportional to risk.
How to separate true agent-like systems from straightforward AI workflows, and why most business use cases should start simpler.
How to evaluate, monitor, and respond to failures in production AI systems so quality, safety, and governance remain active after launch.
How to use AI to support receivables operations, payment matching, collections communication, and dispute routing while keeping customer-sensitive decisions under control.
How to use AI to manage audit requests, prepare PBC responses, and support workpaper assembly while preserving traceability, reviewer control, and defensible evidence.