News, evidence, and field notes for deploying AI.

Company developments, founder perspective, decision frameworks, and operating lessons for leaders moving AI into real infrastructure, workflows, and physical systems.

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MH – Applied AI combines current company news with practical guidance on forward-deployed engineering, private and cloud AI, token efficiency, agents, open systems, and embodied intelligence.

Technical field notes

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Agents and robotics · 7 min read

From AI agents to embodied AI: an enterprise adoption roadmap

A staged path from assistive workflows to bounded agents and physical systems, with governance and human control increasing at every step.

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Architecture · 7 min read

Cloud vs. private AI is a workload decision, not an ideology

An executive framework for deciding where enterprise AI should run across cloud, private infrastructure, local devices, and hybrid systems.

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03
Operating model · 6 min read

What forward-deployed AI engineering means for enterprise leaders

A practical operating model for moving AI from a promising demonstration into an owned, measurable production system.

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Open systems · 7 min read

Open-source-first AI without building an unsupported platform

How enterprises can preserve choice and inspectability while assigning real ownership for models, serving, security, and lifecycle operations.

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05
Efficiency · 7 min read

Token-efficient enterprise AI starts with system design

Reduce AI operating cost and latency by improving context, routing, model choice, caching, and evaluation—not by blindly shortening prompts.

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06
Edge AI · 7 min read

Foundry Local and hybrid AI: put inference where the mission needs it

How to decide between on-device Foundry Local, managed cloud models, private serving, and a hybrid architecture using evidence instead of deployment ideology.

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07
Security architecture · 7 min read

Private Microsoft Foundry: design the data boundary before the private endpoint

An enterprise architecture guide to inbound access, outbound dependencies, DNS, identity, agent networking, and validation for a private Microsoft Foundry deployment.

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Evaluation · 7 min read

From Foundry prototype to production: evaluation is the deployment gate

A practical evaluation system for Microsoft Foundry applications—from representative datasets and task metrics to traces, release gates, and production monitoring.

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Agents · 7 min read

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service: autonomy needs an operating envelope

How to choose between prompt agents, hosted agents, or an external runtime—and place identity, tools, limits, and human control around each.

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Microsoft Foundry · 6 min read

Microsoft Foundry is a platform decision, not an AI strategy

A practical executive guide to deciding where Microsoft Foundry belongs in an enterprise AI architecture—and what the platform cannot decide for you.

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