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August 12, 2026

Beyond Public Models: The Return of Enterprise Control

The discussion about open-source AI has inherited too much baggage from the software industry. Most executives, technologists, and advisers understand open source through Linux, databases, infrastructure software, and applications. The familiar model starts with publicly available code, allows organizations to modify o...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
August 9, 2026

Beyond RAG: Where Enterprise AI Value Will Come From

Data to Decisions
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solved an important early problem for enterprise AI. Large language models could produce useful responses, but they lacked access to current, proprietary, and company-specific information. RAG provided a practical way to retrieve relevant material from enterprise systems and supply ...
Michael Ni
Esteban Kolsky
Orbits Blog
July 20, 2015

Duck Intelligence, Think Wisdom

Next-Generation Customer Experience
I have exercised my systems of patience, after using my systems of reading to...
Orbits Blog
April 29, 2015

Salesforce Buyout: My Speculation

Next-Generation Customer Experience
If you are reading this you don’t need to be directed to an article explainin...
Orbits Blog
March 16, 2015

The Scapegoat Mentality

Data to Decisions
This is a combination between a bad Jerry Maguire scene and the conclusions o...