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Uber Blew Through a Year of AI Budget in Four Months. The Guardrail It Built Next Already Existed.
Custom KPIs: The Four-Layer System Behind Olakai’s Metrics
“Custom KPIs” sounds like a settings screen — pick a formula, name a metric, done. What’s actually interesting about Olakai’s KPI system for AI agents […]
Even Google Can’t Ship Its Best AI
TSMC bet another $100 billion this week. Google can’t ship its best model. And the evaluations that actually decide enterprise AI purchases just went private. […]
The EU AI Act Is Now Enforceable. Is Your AI Governance Ready?
Two EU AI Act deadlines are converging this summer — a July 22 Code of Practice signing window and an August 2 enforcement date for chatbot disclosure and GPAI fines. Governance built after the fact won’t hold up.
Shadow AI, Caught in the Act: Inside Olakai’s App Catalog and Policy Alerts
“We have a Shadow AI problem” is a sentence a CISO says a lot and rarely means precisely. It could mean dozens of unclassified tools […]
Gartner: Only 28% of AI Projects Deliver ROI. Here’s Why the Rest Don’t.
Gartner’s latest research puts a hard number on the AI ROI gap — and a companion study shows layoffs aren’t proof of value. The fix isn’t another pilot; it’s measurement.
The CFO Just Walked Into the Coding Room
Cursor built a CFO council this week, and quietly proved a thesis Olakai has been on for months. The quick version of the week first: […]
Your Engineering Team Uses 3+ AI Coding Tools. What You’re Missing.
No single AI coding tool dominates anymore — engineering teams now run three, four, or five at once. Here’s why that fragmentation, not any one vendor’s pricing, is the real budget and governance risk.
Companies Are Cutting Jobs to Pay for AI. Can They Prove It’s Working?
The jobs apocalypse arrived, and it is being funded by payroll. If a company is trading people for an AI bet, the bar to prove […]
How to Be a Smarter Token Manager: Model Routing, Explained
Two weeks of writing about AI token economics kept leading to the same corner: you cannot control what the vendors charge, only how wisely you […]
Ask Kai: Inside Olakai’s Conversational Control Plane
Every vendor in enterprise AI analytics now claims some version of “ask questions in plain English.” Most of what that actually means, once you look […]
3 Token Cost Metrics Every CFO Should Be Watching
In May 2026, Uber’s COO Andrew Macdonald said something that should make every CFO uncomfortable. Uber had burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in […]
Power, Casual, New, Idle: How Olakai’s Adoption Cohorts Find Your Wasted AI Licenses
A company buys 200 seats of Claude Code or Cursor — a familiar story in the era of AI coding tool sprawl. Six months later, […]