Where frontier AI meets enterprise reality.
Research on the people, companies, systems and engineering practices bringing AI into the enterprise.
FDE / ENTERPRISE AI
Ideas from the front line
OKFDE FIELD NOTES #006｜Two hundred scripts later, are we building a product?
The customer has signed off. Leo opens the repository and starts deciding what the next deployment should inherit.
OKFDE FIELD NOTES #005｜Four steps from manual reconciliation to bounded autonomy
The order approval pilot works. Alex wants to automate the supply chain. The warehouse still needs a hairdryer to recover last week’s records.
OKFDE FIELD NOTES #004｜All Tests Passed, Zero Production Traffic: Why Employees Quietly Reject Enterprise AI
Unit test coverage is 99.9% and inference latency is under 200ms, yet Clara’s mouse hasn't clicked the new portal since week two.A field post-mortem on swivel-chair friction, and invisible integration.
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Companies shaping the field
Scale AI
scale.com
Scale AI is an artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California. Originally focused on data annotation, the company later expanded to offer RLHF services, large language model (LLM) evaluation, and suites for building and deploying AI applications.
OpenAI
openai.com
American artificial intelligence company
Cohere
cohere.com
Provide private, secure, and customizable enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platforms and model products.