Retrieval Evaluation: What to Measure Before Launch
Separate retrieval failures from answer failures.
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The Security Review Checklist for Enterprise AI Tools
Ask the supplier to demonstrate one allowed request, one denied request, a revoked permission, and a failed connector.
Why AI Pilots Fail at the Integration Layer
Start with a dependency record for one workflow: the source system, permitted users, required action, failure owner, and acceptance test.
Government
AI Procurement Questions for Contracting Officers
Better procurement questions make vendor responses more comparable and reduce delivery risk.
When to Use Fine-Tuning Instead of Retrieval
Fine-tuning teaches a model how to behave, not what is true.
Building Audit Trails for Agentic AI Workflows
A chat transcript is not an audit trail.
Government
AI Readiness for Government Contractors
Most contracting firms cannot say which AI tools are approved to touch contract data, and that gap matters more than model access.
The Hidden Work Behind Production AI Chatbots
A fluent chatbot demo hides most of the work that decides whether the system survives real users.
How to Choose Between Knowledge Graphs and Vector Search
Embeddings measure how alike two pieces of text are; a graph records that two things are related, how, and on whose authority.
Prompt Injection Risk in Enterprise Retrieval Systems
Every document your retrieval system indexes is a potential instruction channel into the model.
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Knowledge Spaces Developer APIs Are Open
Sprinklenet has opened version 1.0 of the Knowledge Spaces developer APIs for teams building governed, multi-tenant AI workflows with controlled retrieval, configuration, and usage…
Government
What Federal Buyers Should Ask Before Funding an AI Pilot
Most federal AI pilots fail at transition, not at the demo, because no program office has agreed to own the result.
Sprinklenet AI Newsletter
Most weeks I send one short read on enterprise AI: what’s working in real deployments, what’s not, and what I’d do in your seat.
Jamie Thompson, Founder and CEO