IT Strategy
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How to Build a Private AI Environment
Most private AI projects fail in the same way. They begin with a model, acquire infrastructure, and arrive at the questions about data and identity late, when the answers are expensive. The order below is close to the re...
Open-Source vs Proprietary LLMs
The question is usually asked as open source against proprietary, and the first useful answer is that most models described as open source are not open source. They are open weights, which is a different and considerably...
Securing Enterprise AI APIs
An AI environment is a set of APIs. The model is reached over one, the retrieval service exposes another, the connectors consume half a dozen more, and anything the system can act on is reached the same way.
Which means...
AI Model Hosting Options for Enterprise
Once an organization has decided it wants a controlled AI environment, one component still has to run somewhere in particular: the model. Serving it is a distinct question from where the rest of the environment sits, and...
TIPS IT Consulting Services: A Guide for Public Agencies
Public agencies buy IT consulting for reasons that have very little to do with a shortage of technical ability. Agency technology teams are frequently excellent. What they lack is a second person who has done this partic...
Building an AI Technology Roadmap
A roadmap is the document that turns a decision into a sequence. It answers what happens first, what cannot start until something else finishes, what each stage costs, who owns it, and what would cause the plan to change...
What Is an AI Readiness Assessment?
An AI readiness assessment is a structured review of whether an organization can actually support artificial intelligence in the places it wants to use it, and, where it cannot yet, what has to change first.
It is a diag...
How a Virtual CIO Can Help Your Business Adopt AI
Most small and midsize organizations are already using AI. Not by decision, by accumulation. Someone in marketing subscribed to a writing tool, someone in support started summarizing tickets, someone in finance is pastin...
How Much Do Virtual CIO Services Cost?
It is a reasonable question and a genuinely difficult one to answer well, because “Virtual CIO” describes a role rather than a defined quantity of work. Two proposals for what looks like the same service can ...
Virtual CIO Services for Small and Midsize Businesses
Most descriptions of Virtual CIO services explain why an organization might want one. Fewer explain what the arrangement actually looks like on a Tuesday, which is the thing most business owners want to know before commi...