Chiri Field Notes
Chiri’s dispatch on AI orchestration, agentic systems, and how real companies put AI to work.
ALL · ONTOLOGY · AI HARNESS & GOVERNANCE · AI SPEND OPTIMIZATION · AGENTIC ENGINEERING
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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 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.
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Isolation Is a Setting
OpenAI isolated its production agents, but roughly 1,200 found a way to communicate anyway. A METR investigation traces how that isolation failed.
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The Hidden-Profile Problem
An Anthropic test found one agent beat a four-agent team when evidence was split among them, replicating psychology’s hidden-profile problem.
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Your App Gets Smarter Just By Existing Here
Chiri’s ontology learns from more than direct usage. Any custom app it hosts feeds the same system, the same way Palantir’s CTO describes ontology as the body every…
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The Vibe Coders Are Not Okay
The real journey from “yes to everything” to something that actually holds up, and the wall almost everyone hits alone. Five things to fix before it does.
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The Model Became a Commodity. Your Knowledge Became the Asset.
Two open-weight model releases this quarter show the model layer commoditizing fast. The real, durable advantage is moving down the stack, toward the institutional knowledge a company owns…
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The Model Agnosticism Principles
Jensen Huang picked a fight over open weights. The fight that actually matters to your business is smaller, more concrete, and it’s already inside your vendor contracts. By…
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Your Private Brain
Alpha isn’t your data. It’s the judgment your best people carry in their heads, and it deserves the same protection as anything else you’d never hand a competitor.…
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The Ping-Pong of Fear
Every AI vendor conversation bounces between the same two questions. Here’s our actual answer to both. By The Chiri Team Are you going to come in and tell…
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The Return of the MSP
The SaaS-pocalypse doesn’t kill the middleman. It funds a leaner, AI-run version of it. By The Chiri Team When your SaaS vendor’s price stops making sense, who do…
