Luís Rodrigues's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Most people think Agentic AI is just "ChatGPT + tools" They're wrong. This diagram shows the full stack. Five layers. Each one matters. Most failures happen in layers four and five. Not in the models. 𝟭/ 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗠𝗟 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻) Data becomes decisions here. Classical learning. Supervised, uns…

Everyone wants to be “AI-first”. Nobody wants to fix the data. Agents, MCPs, A2A, automations… The roadmap is full of buzzwords. But ask the board a simple question: "Who owns the data?" Silence. Because nobody owns it. Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a data problem that they pretend doesn't e…

I launched QuickCheck in Nigeria over a weekend. Before AI existed. The app was terrible, built it in PhoneGap (Yes, PhoneGap, I'm old). It barely worked. But it worked enough to answer one question: Would people actually install a lending app and apply for a loan from their phone? That was the only thing versio…

Everyone wants to be “AI-first”. Nobody wants to fix the data. Agents, MCPs, A2A, automations… The roadmap is full of buzzwords. But ask the board a simple question: "Who owns the data?" Silence. Because nobody owns it. Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a data problem that they pretend doesn't e…

88% of companies use AI. Only 6% got anything out of it. Same companies, 6% started in the crowd. Then they crossed. I've watched this play out dozens of times. A company buys the tools. Runs the pilots. Ships a few agents. Posts about the progress. Then it stops. → AI sits bolted on top of the old machine → Th…

Most companies think AI governance is paperwork. That's the last 10%. I've shipped production AI in fintech. Credit scoring, payments, agentic workflows. Compliance was the easy bit. The hard part is everything that has to be true before the paperwork even makes sense. That's the 90% nobody posts about. Six laye…