AI Adoption Playbook
Episodes
Building deterministic security for multi-agent AI workflows | David Gildea (Druva)
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Gildea has learned that traditional security models collapse when AI agents start delegating tasks to 50 or 60 other agents in enterprise workfl...
Building AI agents that learn from feedback: BigPanda's drag-and-drop system | Alexander Page
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fastest path to production AI isn't perfect architecture, according to Alexander Page. It's customer validation. In his former role of Principal A...
From 14 to 14,000 patients: How UCHealth scales healthcare with AI | Richard Zane (UCHealth)
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UCHealth’s healthcare AI methodology currently enables 1 nurse to monitor 14 fall-risk patients, with plans to scale to 140, then 1,400 through comp...
How construction companies can leverage AI at scale | Dan Williamson
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The construction industry sits on goldmines of unstructured data that could revolutionize how buildings get built. From thousands of contracts to comm...
Why AI should live in the business unit, not security: Lessons from mobile and cloud transitions | Mandy Andress (Elastic)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Elastic, CISO Mandy Andress learned that pragmatic guardrails work better than blanket bans for managing AI adoption across their 3,500-person dist...
How Yext created AI fact sheets to standardize vendor evaluations | Rohit Parchuri (CISO at Yext)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At Yext, evaluating every AI tool through a security-first lens sparked comprehensive AI governance frameworks that protect enterprise data without st...
AI build vs buy: How do you choose between custom tools vs vendors? | Diamond Bishop
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you build AI agents trusted enough to handle production incidents while engineers sleep? At Datadog, it sparked a fundamental rethin...
From 0 to 600 custom GPTs in one company: Why creativity beats technology in AI transformation | Michael Domanic
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you achieve 75% weekly active AI tool usage across an enterprise? At UserTesting, it started with a deliberate strategy to foster experimental ...
Incident response AI: How do you build an AI that tells you how to fix outages? | Lawrence Jones
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When technical systems fail at companies like Netflix or Etsy, every minute of downtime can cost millions. That's why incident.io is building AI syste...
LLM-as-a-judge: How Shopify built AI judges that match human reviewers | Spencer Lawrence
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when AI capabilities outpace organizational readiness? At Shopify, this tension has pushed them to develop a practical implementation app...
Enterprise AI security: How MongoDB secured data for 5,000 employees | David Vainchenker
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget theoretical planning — MongoDB dove headfirst into AI adoption and let real-world usage guide their strategy. David Vainchenker, Sr. Director...
From 30% to 99% AI accuracy in production | Allen Jeter (Lattice)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The AI Adoption Playbook, Allen Jeter, Director of IT at Lattice, describes how his team transformed internal operations by strateg...
The AI champion method: Finding internal advocates | Robert Mitchell (WSI)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the secret to successful AI adoption? According to Robert Mitchell, Chief AI Officer at WSI, it's not just about choosing the right tools, but ...
How to build retrieval augmented generation with just 26 lines of SQL | Ian Macomber (Ramp)
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you enable SQL engineers to build sophisticated AI systems with just 26 lines of code? At Ramp, it sparked a transformation in how t...
The company-wide AI hackathon that transformed 1,000 employees in one week | Muskan Kukreja (head of ML and AI at Checkr)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you pause all company operations for a week to teach everyone — from marketers to legal teams — how to build AI co-pilots? At Ch...