Shadow Engineering

Shadow Engineering

The biggest GPU company on the planet just built an enterprise wrapper around a free open-source tool because their customers are already using it — and IT can’t stop them. At GTC this week, NVIDIA announced NemoClaw — a software stack that deploys secure AI agents on OpenClaw with a single command. Enterprise guardrails, audit trails, sandboxed execution. It’s a good product, and it’s a confession. I talk to organisations every day that are trying to build enterprise agents. To be clear: the first wave of enterprise AI worked. Chatbots, RAG pipelines, hybrid search — organisations have genuinely nailed that stuff, and it’s delivering real value. But agentic is a different problem entirely. Outside of coding — which works, and works well — most organisations are struggling to build agents that actually do things autonomously on behalf of users in a way that changes how the business operates. The demos are fine. The production value is… not. OpenAI just declared a “code red” and pivoted its entire company toward coding and enterprise because that’s the one agentic use case that’s actually delivering. That should tell you something about where we are. ...

March 18, 2026 · 3 min · Ben Karciauskas
Enterprise Ready Production Gen AI with Databricks

Enterprise Ready Production Gen AI with Databricks

The Rise of Private Generative AI and the Need for Enterprise Tools As the potential of Generative AI becomes increasingly apparent, more and more organisations are looking to harness its power for their specific use cases. However, deploying AI models in a private, secure, and compliant manner presents significant challenges. While public AI models like OpenAI and Anthropic have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, many organisations require the ability to leverage private and often sensitive data sources and deploy them in a controlled environment. This is especially critical for industries with strict data privacy and compliance requirements, such as healthcare, FSI and Government. Private Generative AI allows companies to leverage the power of AI while ensuring that sensitive data remains secure and confidential. ...

April 15, 2024 · 3 min · Ben Karciauskas
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