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Notes from the field on industrial automation, control systems, and agentic AI — written by the engineers who build them.

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April 10, 202616 min read

10 Steps to AI Maturity

Most organizations do not need a leap into autonomous agents. They need a staircase. This 10-step AI maturity model starts with no adoption at all, moves through familiarization, centralization, workflow AI, RAG, grounding and governance, and ends with self-improving agentic systems.

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April 17, 202610 min read

What Matters in an Agentic System Is Governance

Poor governance in an autonomous system is not just an operational risk. The cost can be measured in liability, money, or lives, often in ways that are not obvious until the damage is already done.

ByPete Norcross