Frontier AI to business impact: FDE's 18-month playbook says 'make it exist first, scale second'
colintjarvis · x · 2026-09-28
At HumanX Amsterdam, the author joined a conversation with The Economist's Alex Hern on turning frontier AI into measurable business impact, drawing on 18 months of customer-facing work.
Key points:
- Guiding principle: "make it exist first, and scale second" — harness engineering is now the norm for their team.
- The principles of enterprise software haven't changed; what evolved are the primitives for governance, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Enterprises unlock direct value by consistently exposing data and specialized systems to agents, and by collecting internal evaluation data for their highest-value workflows.
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