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…

𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣. Do I have your attention? One word. Bold. Caps. And you gave me 0.4 seconds of your life. That’s the attention economy. We skim. We click. We scroll. Now apply that to AI. Most people are “trying AI” the same way they skim a feed: quick prompts, quick dopamine, zero workflow. It feels productive, b…

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 a compliance checklist. That's the final 10%. I've shipped production AI in fintech: credit models, payment rails, agentic workflows and the reality is that compliance was the simple part. The hard part is everything that has to already be true before a checklist means anythin…