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      <title><![CDATA[The Five Questions Legal Should Be Asking Before Your Next AI Deployment]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/five-questions-legal-should-ask-before-ai-deployment</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AI governance has moved from voluntary guideline to operational necessity. Here are the five questions Legal, Compliance, and risk-aware executives should ask before signing off on any AI deployment — and the answers that should give you confidence.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What an Integration Assessment Actually Maps]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/what-an-integration-assessment-actually-maps</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A Phase 1 Integration Assessment is not a strategy deck. It's a structured map of the operational, data, identity, and governance reality that determines whether AI integration will work in your environment. Here's what we actually map, and why each layer matters.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Enterprise RAG is Not Demo RAG]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/enterprise-rag-is-not-demo-rag</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[RAG is not a feature you add. It is a system you operate. Here are the five things that separate the prototype that wowed the executive team from the production deployment that's still working in eighteen months.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Standard Your AI Stack Will Need — Whether You Know It Yet or Not]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/the-standard-your-ai-stack-will-need</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Salesforce just rebuilt its entire platform around a protocol most mid-market leaders have never heard of. Here's why that matters for your business.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vibe Coding Will Cost You More Than It Saves]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/vibe-coding-will-cost-you-more-than-it-saves</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Your CEO probably thinks AI-assisted development and vibe coding are the same thing. They're not, and that confusion will cost you money.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why 79% of Companies Are Failing at AI — And It's Not a Tech Problem]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/why-79-percent-of-companies-are-failing-at-ai</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The biggest AI failures aren't happening in the model. They're happening in the org chart.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Most AI Pilots Plateau at Month Three]]></title>
      <link>https://ironpine.ai/insights/field-notes/why-ai-pilots-plateau-at-month-three</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The chart shape is consistent across every mid-market AI deployment we've seen. Adoption climbs through the launch wave, peaks somewhere between weeks six and ten, and then bends downward. The root cause isn't the AI.]]></description>
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