Practical AI for business
Principal AI Strategist at Cloverbase. Microsoft MVP since 2012. Co-author of Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption. Host of The Intelligence Age Podcast with 837+ episodes.
Ten AI agents, each owning a phase of the DevOps infinity loop, coordinated by an engineering-manager agent. How I built a development team that plans, builds, codes, tests, releases, deploys, operates, and monitors continuously.
A live audit of my OpenCLAW Azure VM found two critical gaps: no Azure-native VM backup and no Azure Monitor Agent. Here is what I fixed, what it cost, and what is still unproven.
After 836 episodes across seven shows and nearly a decade, I'm wrapping up the Microsoft Innovation Podcast. Here's what the numbers say, what the stats don't capture, and what's next.
Six weeks ago a security audit told me I had 268 plaintext secrets scattered across my AI agent platform. This week I closed out the migration that fixed it. Here is what I learned about credentials, AI agents, and the gap between what we build and what we secure.
A Speechify renewal email made me question every subscription my business pays for. Since January 2026, I have eliminated nearly $10,000 in annual SaaS costs by building alternatives with AI. Here is what I learned about the subscription economy along the way.
