Essays on AI strategy, governance, private AI, and workflow ROI from Brad Taylor.https://bradtaylorai.comen-ushttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/inside-the-monthly-ai-executive-reporthttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/inside-the-monthly-ai-executive-reportWhat a fractional Chief AI Officer owes you in writing every month — section by section, with a full sample report you can read.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadership & Operating Modelhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/what-implementation-oversight-looks-likehttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/what-implementation-oversight-looks-likeThe quiet failure mode of AI implementations isn't bad code. It's unsupervised scope. Here's what a month of real oversight looks like, no's included.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuying Judgmenthttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/how-to-evaluate-ai-vendorshttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/how-to-evaluate-ai-vendorsEvery enterprise AI pitch says the same things, so capability claims can't differentiate. Gates before scores, your workflows over the demo, price last.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuying Judgmenthttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/how-i-decide-which-ai-initiatives-to-killhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/how-i-decide-which-ai-initiatives-to-killMost AI portfolios die of politeness. The quarterly fund/hold/kill memo: every initiative names its P&L line, shows spent vs. returned, gets a verdict.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorkflows & ROIhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/why-ai-training-failshttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/why-ai-training-failsThe standard rollout produces a spike, then a slide back to the same 15% of enthusiasts. Here's the program that replaces it, and the numbers to watch.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadership & Operating Modelhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/90-day-ai-roadmap-professional-serviceshttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/90-day-ai-roadmap-professional-servicesThe actual plan an AI Executive Assessment produces — days 0–14, 15–45, and 46–90 — including what I deliberately leave out.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorkflows & ROIhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-opportunity-backloghttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-opportunity-backlogThe scoring method I use to turn a wall of AI ideas into three to five workflows worth building — and a public list of everything I killed.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorkflows & ROIhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/why-knowledge-assistants-failhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/why-knowledge-assistants-failThe model is almost never the problem. After three years shipping retrieval systems, these are the corpus failures that kill knowledge assistants.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWorkflows & ROIhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-governance-without-bureaucracyhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-governance-without-bureaucracyAt 50–500 people, AI governance is a handful of owned decisions, not a committee. Done right, it speeds adoption instead of slowing it.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadership & Operating Modelhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/when-private-ai-makes-sensehttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/when-private-ai-makes-sensePrivate AI is an architecture decision, not an ideology. The honest criteria I use to tell clients when to build it — and when to skip it.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivate & Secure AIhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-operating-modelhttps://bradtaylorai.com/writing/ai-operating-modelMost AI pilots stall because no one owns the decisions behind them: data rules, approved tools, workflow priority, and how ROI gets measured.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLeadership & Operating Model