Chiri Field Notes
Chiri’s dispatch on AI orchestration, agentic systems, and how real companies put AI to work.
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Pods, Not Departments: How Chiri Structures AI Delivery Work
Chiri CTO Matthew Wimberly explains why Chiri replaced traditional consulting’s planning cycles with a weekly show-and-tell delivery rhythm.
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What Real AI Agent Governance Looks Like in Practice
Chiri CTO Matthew Wimberly argues real AI governance means answering operational questions, not showing slide decks, about what agents can access and cost.
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Where Digital Twins Come In: From a Wastewater Plant to Company Memory
Chiri CTO Matthew Wimberly traces the idea of company memory back to a wastewater plant he ran in Arizona, and the note-taking habit that led to it.
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The Seat Survived. The Margin Didn’t.
HR analyst Josh Bersin says incumbent vendors absorbed AI instead of being replaced by it. This piece agrees the seat survived, the margin didn’t.
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Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills
Token prices are falling, but enterprise AI bills keep rising as usage outpaces the savings. The real cost lever is the price of a finished task.
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Why Everyone Is Talking About an AI Harness, and What You Need to Know
Salesforce and Anthropic’s Claudeforce deal put the term ‘AI harness’ into a major announcement. Here’s what that term actually means for buyers.
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Accountability, Not Capability
A new Google Cloud report finds security, governance, and operations, not model capability, are now the top blockers to scaling AI in the enterprise.
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The Completion Standard
A Factory research report finds coding agents stop early without a clear definition of done, tested across single-agent and three-role team setups.
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Per-Seat Pricing Is Back
AI broke SaaS’s flat per-seat pricing model by making costs scale with usage. This piece traces why metered pricing took over, and why per-seat is returning.
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The Trust Ledger
Trust in leadership has fallen for years. HR analyst Josh Bersin argues policy choices, not AI, caused the drop, and AI will only accelerate the trend.
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What an Ontology Actually Is, and Why It Decides AI Output Quality
Chiri CTO Matthew Wimberly explains what an ontology really is, a map of a business’s data, and why it decides whether AI output is useful or noise.