Podcast
The infrastructure gap between AI demos and production-grade agents, explored in six episodes. Governance, traceability, accountability, and the missing layers enterprise teams need to ship agents they can trust.
Six episodes. One question: what does it actually take to move AI agents from hackathon demos to trusted production systems?
Hosted by Rippletide, The Decision Layer dives into the governance, traceability, and accountability challenges that separate prototypes from production, and the infrastructure patterns that solve them.
95% accuracy sounds great, until it compounds across a five-step workflow and drops to 60%. We unpack the four ways AI agents silently fail in production and why reproducibility is the first infrastructure problem every team must solve.
Open on SpotifyRAG works for chatbots because humans catch hallucinations. Autonomous agents don't have that luxury. We explore why retrieval-augmented generation breaks down for agentic workflows, and what context graphs offer that document lookups never will.
Open on SpotifyEvery enterprise has a system of record. Every one stores what happened. None of them explain why it happened. We explore the context gap that makes AI agents unreliable and unauditable, and what it takes to close it.
Open on SpotifyFewer than 15% of AI agent POCs reach production. The problem isn't intelligence. It's authority. Why autonomy without control is deferred legal risk, why prompt guardrails fail in the real world, and what infrastructure layer every agent stack is missing.
Open on SpotifyWhen an AI agent approves a mortgage, rejects an insurance claim, or reroutes a crew, who is accountable? The accountability gap is the biggest unaddressed risk in enterprise AI, and the EU AI Act is making it legally real.
Open on SpotifyThe gap between a brilliant demo and a trusted production system isn't about code. In this season finale, we uncover what separates the companies that ship from the ones stuck behind the POC wall. Spoiler: it's governance as infrastructure.
Open on SpotifyThe Decision Layer isn't just a podcast. It's the philosophy behind Rippletide. Every episode maps to real infrastructure we're building for enterprise AI teams.