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AI for Supply Chain: Why the Most Powerful AI and IoT Strategies Start Boring

Every conversation about AI seems to gravitate toward the cinematic: fully autonomous fulfillment networks, ...

Diagram by Pythian comparing persistent AI agent players, dividing Enterprise Players (Gemini Enterprise, Anthropic, Copilot) from Consumer Tools (Gemini Spark, Copilot+ PC, OpenAI Dots, Meta).

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Persistent AI Agents: Why Enterprise Automation Demands an Operating Model and Strategy

Every week, another vendor launches an "always-on, fully autonomous AI agent" designed to tackle complex workflows. But ...

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These are the 5 Things IT Leaders Say about AI: Moving from Pilot Fatigue to Business Process Automation

Enterprise AI has reached a critical inflection point. Behind closed boardroom doors, conversations between CTOs, CIOs, ...

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GigaOm x Pythian: Realities and Risks of Enterprise AI

In a recent interview on the Business Disruptions in Tech podcast, Howard Holton and Pythian CTO Paul Lewis discussed ...

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Pythian wins Atlassian’s AI and Innovation Leaders Award

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Why Google AI Automation Powers Data-Centric Industries: Enterprise AI Automation Consulting Guide

The enterprise cloud conversation has fundamentally shifted from infrastructure hosting to autonomous business ...

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Guide to Agentic AI Design Patterns: From Theory to Enterprise AI Automation

Most enterprise AI initiatives stall at the chatbot stage: A user submits a prompt, and a model returns static text.

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How Thoughtworks scales AI adoption to empower their workforce

Technology is the easy part. The people? That’s where the real challenge—and the real magic—happens.

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Manufacturing the future: How Sanmina is scaling AI

In the world of high-tech manufacturing, complexity isn't just a challenge—it’s the baseline. For Sanmina, a Fortune ...

At Google Cloud Next, Paul Lewis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Pythian and Matt Ferrari, Lead of Platforms, Wayfair explored how one of the world’s largest homegoods retailers moved from legacy gridlock to AI-driven agility.

AI Strategy

The Retail Revolution: How Wayfair is using AI to shape the future of online furniture shopping

The retail landscape is no longer just about having the best product on the shelf; it’s about having governed data that ...

Schnucks, a fourth-generation family-owned grocer, discussed with us at Google Cloud Next 2026 how a strategic shift toward AI and automation is empowering their multigenerational workforce.

AI Strategy

Beyond the cart: How AI is transforming grocery store operations

The grocery industry has long been defined by razor-thin margins and intense manual labor. From the back-office hum of ...

Enterprise AI automation consulting framework: moving from implementation to business impact | Paul Lewis, CTO, Pythian

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From Implementation to Impact: Mastering Enterprise AI Automation

The dust has finally settled on Google Cloud Next 26, and if there is one definitive takeaway, it is this: The era of ...

Google Cloud

AI Automation Consulting: Navigating Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent platform marks an operational shift in enterprise technology: moving from ...

Building AI automation in production roadmap | Pythian blog

AI Strategy

How to Build and Scale AI Automation in Production

Almost every enterprise has built a compelling AI automation demo. A handful of engineers spin up a proof of concept ...

AI Strategy

What Are Good Alternatives to the Big AI Consulting Firms?

The right AI consulting partner isn't the biggest or the most familiar: it's the one that can get your AI initiatives ...

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The Executive's Guide to Data Readiness and AI Governance Consulting

For executives in regulated industries, artificial intelligence (AI) governance is not optional paperwork. It is the ...

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Why Your IT Department Needs to Implement AI This Year

For years, AI in the data center was a "tomorrow" problem. Many CIOs this year watched from the sidelines as large ...

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The IT Emergency Room: Why Incident Management is the Heartbeat of Your Business

In the world of technology, we often celebrate the "builders"—the architects designing new systems and the developers ...

AI Strategy

From Prompts to Processes: Building Reliable NLP-to-SQL with Multi-Agent Reasoning

Introduction: Why AI Agents Are the Next Step Beyond Traditional Systems In recent years, Natural Language to SQL ...

AI Strategy

The CIO’s Mandate: Blinking Lights, Business Models, and AI for IT

Modern business survival requires that leaders fundamentally understand IT. It is no longer enough for IT to simply ...

AI Strategy

Escaping the IT Capacity Trap: How to Leverage AI for Incident Management

CIOs today are caught in a paradox. While 47 percent of global CIOs view AI for IT as a critical part of their ...

AI Strategy

Can You Build an AI for IT Ops Roadmap in Just 3 Days?

We are witnessing a massive shift in the mandate for CIOs. Most enterprise AI initiatives die in the boardroom. They ...

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Tip Tuesday | Choosing a Chunk Size for RAG

Optimizing your Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline starts with one crucial decision: how to slice your data. ...

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The intelligent data imperative: Building your business’s AI future with Google

Table of contents Executive summary: The mandate for intelligence Chapter 1 - The breaking point of traditional data ...

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AI Chatbots vs AI Assistants vs AI Agents: Choosing the Right Tool for Process Automation

AI chatbots, AI assistants, and AI agents: What exactly is the difference?

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Securing the Lifeblood of AI: Protecting Your Data Pipelines

The AI revolution is here. With a projected market value of $68.29 billion by 2029, the data security industry is ...

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Garbage In, Intelligence Accelerated in the Wrong Direction: Why Data Quality is the Bedrock of AI Success

The rapid ascent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises transformative capabilities, igniting a race among ...

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AI for Supply Chain: Why the Most Powerful AI and IoT Strategies Start Boring

Persistent AI Agents: Why Enterprise Automation Demands an Operating Model and Strategy

These are the 5 Things IT Leaders Say about AI: Moving from Pilot Fatigue to Business Process Automation

GigaOm x Pythian: Realities and Risks of Enterprise AI

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