Erin Moore — Fractional Chief AI Officer
    Vol. VII — Writing
    The JournalEssays & Field Notes

    Practical writing on AI in the wild.

    Field notes from real engagements. Frameworks, postmortems, and the unglamorous discipline of shipping AI in production.

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    Why Your Team Hides How Much AI They Use
    AI Governance··3 min read

    Why Your Team Hides How Much AI They Use

    They are not being reckless. They are responding rationally to how your company treats the answer.

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    How to Find the Shadow AI Already in Your Company
    AI Governance··4 min read

    How to Find the Shadow AI Already in Your Company

    Your staff are already using AI you did not approve. Here are four ways to find out what, without turning it into an investigation.

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    Shadow AI: The Risk Hiding in Your Company
    AI Strategy··7 min read

    Shadow AI: The Risk Hiding in Your Company

    Your employees are already using AI at work — you just don't know which tools, or with what data. That's Shadow AI, and it's one of the fastest-growing risks in business. Here's what it is and how to get ahead of it without banning everything.

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    AI strategy and leadership decisions for growing businesses: what a Chief AI Officer actually does, how to evaluate vendors, how to measure return, and why most AI projects fail. It is written for people deciding what to fund, not for people building models.
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    New pieces publish regularly, and existing ones are revised when the underlying facts change — pricing, market rates and vendor landscapes move quickly enough that stale posts become misleading rather than merely dated.
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    Erin Moore, a fractional Chief AI Officer and U.S. Army veteran with an Executive MBA, an MS in Data Science and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Everything is written from the buyer's side of the table, which is where the work happens.
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    If you are new to the topic, start with what a fractional Chief AI Officer does and why most AI projects fail. If you are already spending on AI, the posts on AI audits and measuring ROI will be more immediately useful.