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Aug 21, 2026 | Brad Groux
Questions Before Platforms: Building the Data Foundation AI Actually Needs | Episode #0036 by Start Small, Think Big
AI readiness starts with better questions, shared business definitions, current knowledge, and lightweight governance—not another platform. Brad Groux and Sid Atkinson explain how leaders can build that foundation without slowing the business down.
Aug 18, 2026 | Digital Meld
Who Is Paying for the AI Boom?
AI is already useful. The financing behind frontier labs is increasingly circular, provider revenue remains hard to isolate, and public evidence does not support planning a business around near-term AGI or ASI.
Jul 29, 2026 | Digital Meld
Using Personal AI in 2026: From Business Context to Working Software With OpenClaw and Codex
A practical workshop walkthrough showing how durable business context, a challenged PRD, scoped issues, a bounded goal, human review, and verification turn OpenClaw and Codex into a repeatable software delivery workflow.
Jul 21, 2026 | Digital Meld
How We Use QuickBooks, Agentic AI, and Automation to Clean Up Accounts Payable and Bookkeeping
QuickBooks can be the financial source of truth, but much of the work happens before and after a transaction reaches the ledger. Here is how Digital Meld uses agentic AI, deterministic checks, and human approval to reduce manual AP and bookkeeping work without handing financial authority to a model.
Jul 17, 2026 | Digital Meld
Business AI Starts With the People Who Know the Work
A practical lesson from GitHub Rubber Duck Thursday: useful business AI starts with the people who know the work, then turns that knowledge into process, checks, and reviewable artifacts.
Jul 15, 2026 | Digital Meld
The Incident Plan Has to Exist Before the Incident
A repository attack workshop is a useful reminder for open source maintainers and businesses alike: incident response plans only work when roles, evidence, credentials, communications, and closure criteria are ready before the incident starts.
Jul 8, 2026 | Digital Meld
KARS Makes Agent Infrastructure a Microsoft Stack Conversation
KARS gives Microsoft-focused teams a practical reference for running agents with real runtime boundaries: per-agent sandboxes, governed egress, router-held credentials, audit, policy, and Kubernetes-native operations.
Jul 6, 2026 | Brad Groux
AI Adoption Is a Partner Journey, Not a Turnkey Product
Microsoft Frontier Company is another signal that business AI adoption is moving from model access to hands-on implementation. Useful AI has to be fitted around a business, its people, and its workflows.
Jul 1, 2026 | Brad Groux
Before Businesses Adopt Codex, Define Its Permission Model
Codex permissions are not just a developer setting. For business adoption, named work modes, scoped access, reviewable policy, and verification need to come before the prompt library.
Jun 23, 2026 | Brad Groux
How Digital Meld Built a Power Apps Code App with OpenClaw and Codex
Digital Meld used OpenClaw, Codex, GitHub issues, Power Platform, and Dataverse to turn messy cross-functional business context into a deployed Power Apps Code App with a durable delivery trail.
Jun 12, 2026 | Brad Groux
Veritas Kanban 5.0 Launches as an Agentic AI Command Center
Veritas Kanban 5.0 turns a local-first board into an operating layer for AI-assisted work, with signed macOS delivery, SQLite-backed storage, RBAC, audit trails, workflows, and agent integration surfaces.
Jun 11, 2026 | Brad Groux
Digital Meld at Microsoft Build 2026 with OpenClaw, GitHub, and Microsoft
Digital Meld joined OpenClaw, GitHub, and Microsoft at Microsoft Build 2026 for booth conversations, a GitHub speaking session, a recording session, and the OpenClaw after-hours event at GitHub.