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Where Should a Company Actually Start With AI?

Where Should a Company Actually Start With AI?

Companies do not need to start their AI journey with a platform or a long list of use cases. A practical starting point is a business workflow that matters, occurs often enough to improve, can be pursued responsibly, and gives leadership an outcome it can measure.

My Software Engineers Need a New Job Title

My Software Engineers Need a New Job Title

What our Claude Days of Summer showed about the job now: our engineers decide what to build, when to stop, how it's architected, and whether it works. The typing is the part the agent does. So what do we call them?

AI Activity Is Not an AI Strategy

AI Activity Is Not an AI Strategy

Many organizations have growing AI activity but limited strategic direction. A practical AI strategy connects business priorities to workflows, ownership, responsible-use decisions, and measurable outcomes so leaders can decide where AI should create value and what should happen next.

Ground Truth: NGS News, Q3 2026

Ground Truth: NGS News, Q3 2026

The Q3 2026 edition of Ground Truth, the NGS newsletter: Mike Gianoni invests and joins as Strategic Advisor, NGS AI Advisory launches, CoreSpatial 3D arrives, CoreSpatial is procurable on Tradewinds and AWS Marketplace, and our engineers weigh in on AI, interoperability, and open weights.

Machines With Intelligence: Part 2

Machines With Intelligence: Part 2

The barista was the answer all along. A follow-up to “Machines vs. Intelligence” on the hybrid: intelligence mounted inside a machine, from autopilots and adaptive cruise to robots and Dune’s Butlerian Jihad, and why the autonomy dial is the control that matters most.

Machines vs. Intelligence: A Case Study (Kind Of)

Machines vs. Intelligence: A Case Study (Kind Of)

A Star Trek replicator could out-cook, out-brew, and out-build any single-purpose machine ever built. So why does the espresso machine still win? A look at what separates a fixed design from open-ended intelligence, and why designing machines might be the real opportunity AI opens up.

Open Weights, Open Source, and Who Actually Owns Your Data

Open Weights, Open Source, and Who Actually Owns Your Data

Meta's new open-weight model release changes where enterprise data has to travel to get value out of AI. It's the same argument NGS has been making about open-source GIS for years, applied to a new layer of the stack.

Announcing NGS AI Advisory

Announcing NGS AI Advisory

NGS brings the security discipline behind its defense and intelligence work to commercial teams seeking to put AI to work with appropriate controls and clear accountability.