The Practitioner's Guide to AI Agents
From First Principles to Production Systems
A twelve-part series that takes you from 'what is an agent?' to building self-improving systems. Pick your starting point based on where you are today.
Multi-part practitioner's guides. Each guide is a complete series of articles designed to be read in order.
From First Principles to Production Systems
A twelve-part series that takes you from 'what is an agent?' to building self-improving systems. Pick your starting point based on where you are today.
From Structural Definition to Regulatory Examination Readiness
A seven-part practitioner's guide to building, operationalizing, and scaling Critical Data Element programs in financial services, insurance, and healthcare. From structural definition through usage-first identification, operationalization, risk integration, and a full reference implementation, with worked examples, RACI matrices, and regulatory cross-references.
From Sensitivity Tiers to Enforced Access Control
A six-part practitioner's guide covering the complete lifecycle of a Data Classification program: from framework design and the five hard decisions through enforcement, tooling choices, unstructured and AI data, and scaling adoption. Tool-agnostic throughout, with one dedicated comparison article.
From Teardown to Framework to Implementation
A ten-part series from teardown to framework to implementation. Two company analyses (Netflix, Apple), an 8-component privacy program framework, the 2026 regulatory landscape, a complete implementation walkthrough using a fictitious B2B SaaS company, a three-part deep dive into Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and a synthesis of what it all means for practitioners.