by Daniel Jaye | Feb 5, 2026
By Dan Jaye, CTO Legacy companies are spending currency they don’t have yet. Their best people are paying the price. Two people gave me almost identical accounts in December. One in retail corporate finance: “My boss’s boss is now my boss. I had to...
by Daniel Jaye | Dec 16, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO Five Things I Think I Think: AI in 2026 For the past year, we’ve watched the AI industry do what it does best: build first, ask permission later. The demos were stunning. The pitch decks were beautiful. And the failures were sometimes...
by Daniel Jaye | Dec 15, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO I like AI and recognize its promise. I’ve spent most of my career building systems that assume computers can help humans do smarter things at better speed and scale. But 2025 was the year AI stopped being merely “promising” and started being …...
by Daniel Jaye | Dec 1, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO For years, “AI integration” has lived on roadmaps as a future initiative; something to prepare for eventually. That window is closing. Model Context Protocol (MCP) just marked its first anniversary. In twelve months, it has evolved from an...
by Daniel Jaye | Nov 24, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO There’s a common assumption in technical circles: if data starts out structured, then SQL and well-designed schemas should be enough to unlock its value. Embeddings, NLP, and other unstructured techniques are seen as tools for text, images, or...
by Daniel Jaye | Nov 14, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO My recent LinkedIn post called out the industry’s (so far) tool-only approach to MCP. The response: “Okay, so what SHOULD we be building?” Here’s the detailed answer on architectural patterns that would actually leverage MCP...
by Daniel Jaye | Nov 4, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO We’re in a moment of extraordinary acceleration. Every week, new agentic AI systems appear: frameworks, tools, and protocols designed to reason, adapt, and act. Innovation is exploding in every direction. But beneath the excitement lies a clear...
by Thomas Burg | Oct 28, 2025
Xander Kotsatos Named Chief Revenue Officer; John Lee Joins Board of Directors NEW YORK, NY – October 28, 2025 – Aqfer, the company that unifies, analyzes and activates customer data within your cloud, enabling faster insights, smarter AI, and lower costs, today...
by Daniel Jaye | Sep 28, 2025
By Dan Jaye, CTO The Google AdEx privacy settlement and its introduction of RTB Control made one thing clear: identity enforcement is moving into the core pipes of programmatic. When consumers can opt out and strip identifiers at the auction level, the open bidstream...
