AuthorChris Machut

Six months ago, a lot of companies were still treating AI as something to restrict, contain, or keep away from anything that looked remotely sensitive. Not because every executive suddenly became anti-technology, and not because supply chain people...

By the middle of a long morning of student pitches, you usually know what kind of day you are in for. You can feel pretty quickly whether the room is running on rehearsal or wishful thinking. A few teams will have an idea with some life in it. A few...

Build versus buy in AI gets discussed like it is a clean strategic framework. Build if you want control. Buy if you want speed. Compare the tradeoffs, make a decision, move on and that is not how I came to it. SiteTrax.io exists because we tried to...

From a distance, almost everything in technology looks cleaner than it really is. Slide decks, product demos and forecasts are clean. Even the language around AI has been unusually clean, as if intelligence itself had finally agreed to become...

Every few weeks, the internet declares SaaS is dead. If that were true, my renewal calendar would be empty. It is not. SaaS is not going anywhere. What is getting squeezed is generic SaaS – software that assumes the real world will politely adapt to...

I was a junior at Virginia Tech when The Matrix was released in 1999. Like many people my age, I walked into the theater expecting an action movie and walked out with far more questions than answers. A group of friends and I went back to our college...

I adopted a dachshund named Frankie late last year. Frankie is adorable — except for her breath. Her teeth were coated in plaque from years of neglect. I wanted an organic solution, so I Googled natural plaque remedies and found a common...

When people talk about supply chains, they often say it all comes down to visibility and control. Visibility has become the industry’s obsession: companies invest in dashboards, sensors and tracking to know where everything is. Data that used to...

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in Old Dominion University’s Fall Industrial Advisory Board meeting for the Engineering Technology program. It was more than a meeting; it was a glimpse into the future of education and the workforce...

When I first read “AI Destroys the Old Learning Curve” by Jonathan Rosenthal and Neal Zuckerman in The Wall Street Journal, it crystallized a belief I’ve had for years: the future of AI isn’t about who has the biggest model or the most data. It’s...