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Notes on building agentic AI
Fifteen short reads, drawn from our internal Agentic AI Masterclass: vocabulary, architecture, governance, and two real production case studies.
Data Sovereignty in the Age of Agents: What "Zero Data Retention" Really Means
"Zero data retention" gets used almost as often as a marketing phrase as a precise technical commitment. It helps to break "data sovereignty" into four distinct, concrete levers rather than one vague checkbox.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Governed Tool Call — Not Magic
RAG is frequently presented as a black box. The more useful and accurate framing is much plainer: RAG is a governed tool call, and treating it that way answers a whole set of previously fuzzy questions.
Trust but Verify: Schema Enforcement, Structured Outputs & Agent Evals
An agent's output is only as useful as the next step's ability to parse it. Getting a model to reliably produce machine-parseable output is its own layer of engineering, with a genuine ladder of guarantee strength.
Keeping Humans in the Loop: Where Oversight Still Matters
A fully autonomous loop isn't always the goal. Almost any production agent that touches something irreversible benefits from a human checkpoint — and it's a more elegant mechanism than it sounds.