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Turning Your Company's Documents Into a Brain an Agent Can Use

Drew Donaldson

Published on: 09/07/2026

How to build a knowledge base for AI from the documents you already own: what to ingest, how to structure it for retrieval, and how to keep it fresh.

Data & Intelligence

Your Data Is Only an Asset If an Agent Can Read It

Drew Donaldson

Published on: 01/07/2026

Data is not an asset just because you own it. In the agentic era it counts only if an AI can find and read it, and legibility is where the advantage hides.

Data & Intelligence