Latest Thoughts
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🧠 Agents as a Service is not it.
If you’ve heard of OpenClaw, Perplexity’s Personal Computer, or NVIDIA‘s new Agent Toolkit with NemoClaw, you may also know that the real power behind these tools comes from skills. Modular capabilities that tell an agent how to do a specific job.
The original bet was that enterprises would build agents and integrate them into their software and we would use them. What we are seeing is people want to create their own agents, with their own personality, memory, and context, and then connect them to skills from the systems they already use.
For enterprises, this is bigger than it sounds. These agents can sit on top of your ERP, finance platform, CRM, and project tools and finally do what we have been doing manually for years: connecting data across platforms that were never designed to talk to each other. Correlating things, producing reports, surfacing answers that used to require three people and a spreadsheet.
Some of my own agents connect HubSpot, Google Workspace, Ramp, and Jira, as well as our custom MCP servers, so I can approve an expense report from a Slack message or a voice command.
Skills as a service may be the new SaaS!
Agents-as-a-service are poised to rewire the software industry and corporate structuresEnterprise software vendors can see the agentic train coming and are quickly investing to stay ahead of it. For CIOs, the evolution of AaaS will change not just how the tools are used, but how they’re priced, integrated, and secured. -
📻 What Is OpenClaw, Really?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Marcus Penny, VP of Technology and Digital Services at Bruce Bolt and founder of boutique AI consulting firmTechabo, to dig into one of the most talked-about — and least understood — tools in tech right now: OpenClaw. In this episode, they unpack what OpenClaw actually is, why it […]
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🧠 The AI gas meter is spinning.
AI adoption in businesses is still low, but as it scales, so does token consumption. Think of it like a gas meter that starts spinning the moment your team fires up these tools.
Sitting across from people rolling out AI lately, the concern of mounting token costs with little visible ROI keeps coming up. Every prompt, every response, every automated workflow burns tokens. So companies are starting to ask: does everyone need access to the most powerful models? Should we really be burning frontier compute just to fix the grammar in an email?
Not every task needs the latest shiny model. Sorting email, summarizing a doc, answering routine questions, you simply don’t need Claude Opus 4.6 or ChatGPT 5.4 for that.
One solution is to use tools like Ollama that let you run open-weight models locally for everyday tasks at near zero cost, saving your frontier budget for work that actually needs it.
Tiered AI, matching the model to the task or job role, might be the most underrated cost strategy in the room right now. It’s what allows businesses to expand AI access across the org instead of cutting usage just to save at the pump. -
📻 What does a Chief AI Officer do?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Andy Quick, former Chief AI Officer at Entergy, to explore what it actually means to lead AI inside a Fortune 500 company. In this episode, they unpack what a Chief AI Officer actually does inside a Fortune 500 company. Andy shares what it takes to align AI with […]
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📻 WTCI Agile Presents: Can You Trust What You See Anymore?
Host Jason Michael Perry brings a special live episode from the World Trade Center Institute Agile Global Innovation Series, hosted in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Joined by panelists Tina Williams-Koroma, Yolanda Reid, and Joel M. Benge, with an introduction from Eddie Resende, Jason explores how cybersecurity is evolving in a world […]
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📻 Is Solving Disability the Real Test of Emerging Technology?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Rebecca Rosenberg, founder and CEO of ReBokeh, to explore how technology is reshaping what it means to see and what accessibility can teach us about innovation. From the everyday tech many of us rely on, like glasses and hearing aids, to emerging tools that translate the world for people with low vision, […]
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📻 How Is AI Rewriting the Job Market?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Chris Frew, founder and CEO of BioBuzz and CEO of Workforce Genetics, to explore how AI is reshaping the job market — not just by changing what work looks like, but how people get hired in the first place. In this episode, they dig into what Jason calls […]
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📻 What Happened at CES 2026?
Host Jason Michael Perry returns from Las Vegas with a special CES 2026 edition of Thoughts on Tech & Things. Jason breaks down the Consumer Technology Association’s 2026 megatrends, including Longevity, Intelligent Transformation, and Engineering Tomorrow, and connects them to what actually showed up at CES. From Nvidia’s vision for “Physical AI,” to robots, and […]
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📻 Will the Space Economy Help Fix Earth?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Andrew Parlock, founder and CEO of Space Phoenix Systems, to explore how the space economy is moving from science fiction to everyday reality. From reusable launch systems to returnable payloads and zero-gravity manufacturing, they unpack how falling launch costs are turning low Earth orbit into an operating environment […]
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📻 How Are Public Schools Preparing for AI?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Dawn Shirey, Director of Virtual Learning and Instructional Technology for Baltimore City Public Schools, to explore how one of the nation’s largest urban school systems is preparing teachers and students for the age of AI. They discuss the district’s new AI Guidance, how teachers are learning prompt-writing and […]
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📻 Why Are Data Centers Suddenly So Controversial?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Jenny Abamu, education and infrastructure reporter for WAMU, to unpack Maryland’s rapidly growing data center boom — and the community backlash that’s followed. They explore how Governor Wes Moore’s push to make Maryland a data center hub has collided with local concerns about energy, land use, and environmental […]
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📻 WTCI Agile Presents: What is Quantum?
Host Jason Michael Perry moderates a live panel for the World Trade Center Institute’s AGILE Global Innovation Series, digging into what quantum actually is, why it matters, and how Maryland became a powerhouse in the global quantum race. The session opens with remarks from Jeremy Rosendale, VP of Membership & Business Development at World Trade […]