Agentic AI
Long-Horizon Agents: It Didn't Crash. It Just Stopped Doing the Job.
The work that matters outlives the context window, the session, and your attention. Almost everything we have shipped so far is built for the opposite.
Essay17 min read
Topic
Enterprise AI
Moving AI from demonstration to production inside large, complex organizations.
Bojan Ciric
Technology Fellow (CTO), Deloitte
25+ years building AI and data systems for global banks and Fortune 100 enterprises, published in Deloitte Insights and WSJ CIO Journal. Defined the Knowledge Spine concept and architecture.
AboutData & Enterprise Architecture
Your Data Strategy Is Already Dead. Here's the Resurrection.
You spent the last decade managing data. You should have been managing change — the largest unmanaged workload in enterprise technology, and the one your catalog was never built to see.
Essay21 min read
Agentic AI
The Comprehensive Guide to Agentic AI: 2026 Edition
A map of what the agentic stack actually looks like now: harnesses, protocols, orchestration, runtimes, and the trust layer that decides whether any of it reaches production.
Analysis12 min read
Ontologies & Knowledge GraphsThe Knowledge Spine · Bonus
The Knowledge Spine, Bonus: The Field Manual
The series covered the why. This is the how, at keyboard level: the artifacts, the snippets, the checklists, and the order of operations for shipping your first vertebra and hardening it into a spine.
Essay10 min read
Agentic AIThe Knowledge Spine · Part 5
The Knowledge Spine, Part 5: The Agentic Spine
Agents ask constantly, at machine volume. The spine stops being a reference resource and becomes a runtime dependency — the operating system your machines run on.
Essay5 min read
Semantic SystemsThe Knowledge Spine · Part 4
The Knowledge Spine, Part 4: The Spine's Balance Sheet
Semantic projects rarely die of bad modeling. They die at budget season, because the value lands in everyone else's numbers. How to count meaning as infrastructure.
Essay6 min read
Semantic SystemsThe Knowledge Spine · Part 3
The Knowledge Spine, Part 3: The Living Spine
An ontology is a photograph of the business. The business is a movie. How to keep meaning true while everything it describes keeps moving.
Essay7 min read
Agentic AI
The Model Isn't the Agent. The Harness Is.
Put the same model inside two different systems and you get two different outcomes. The engineering around the model is what turns a text predictor into something that can act.
Idea2 min read
Semantic SystemsThe Knowledge Spine · Part 2
The Knowledge Spine, Part 2 — The Blitz: A Backbone in Six Months, Not Two Years
The multi-year semantic program is obsolete. How to go from nothing to a working knowledge spine in six months, vertebra by vertebra.
Essay6 min read
Semantic SystemsThe Knowledge Spine · Part 1
The Knowledge Spine: Why Your Ontology Needs to Grow a Backbone
Why enterprise ontologies need to stop being documentation and become operational infrastructure for data, applications and AI.
Essay6 min read
Semantic Systems
Ontologies, Taxonomies, and the Context Confusion
Three conflations I keep hearing in every AI conversation, and why the tooling is getting commoditized while the modeling is where the durable advantage lives.
Idea1 min read
Data & Enterprise Architecture
The Best Context Strategy Moves the Least Data
Everyone is telling you to build a knowledge graph for AI. Before launching another data movement project, ask a harder question: what does AI actually need from your data?
Idea1 min read