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…

Everyone's funding the top floors. Strategy. GenAI use cases. The dashboard that looks great in the board deck. Meanwhile the base: Definitions, data quality, and ownership were never built. Or got built once and left to rot. Then everyone's surprised when the building starts to lean. AI doesn't fail at the top…