The desk that signs every page.
Every piece on Explore Agentic is written and reviewed by named practitioners — split across an editorial chair, a technical desk for implementation depth, and a strategy desk for procurement and GTM context.
Technical desk
- Alexander GromanMCP Implementation
Covers MCP implementation and security: the OAuth 2.1 spec revisions, gateway auth patterns, and tool-calling threat models.
MCP server implementationOAuth 2.1 & RFC 8707MCP gateway auth10w · 9r Insight · Comparison · Pillar - Kelvin YuAWS Agents
Covers AWS-native agent infrastructure — Bedrock, AgentCore, S3 Vectors — plus the registry and gateway control planes.
Amazon Bedrock & AgentCoreAgent gatewayAgent registry12w · 10r Insight · Glossary · Comparison - Soraya ZhengRetrieval & Evaluation
Writes the enterprise RAG pillar: chunking, embedding models, re-rankers, and the evals that gate a release.
Enterprise RAGEmbedding modelsRe-rankers7w · 9r Insight · Comparison · Pillar - Cynthia ZhangData & NLQ
Covers natural-language data interfaces, healthcare data standards, and the guardrails that keep data agents honest.
Natural-language queryingEDI 270/271 & X12Prompt-injection defense6w · 3r Insight · Glossary · Case study - Tommy TaoRetrieval & Search
Writes retrieval and judge evaluation: recall@k, faithfulness, LLM-as-a-judge calibration, and CI gating.
RAG evaluationLLM-as-a-judgeAgentic RAG6w · 6r Insight · Pillar · Glossary
Strategy & GTM desk
- Chandler BensonCustomer Programs
Covers what AI programs cost to run after signature: staffing models, TCO, seat math, and deployment case studies.
Platform TCOAI program staffingClaude seat & discount math9w · 4r Insight · Comparison · Case study - Elias SaljukiProduct Strategy
Writes the Jarvis head-to-head comparisons: pricing models, positioning, and where our own product loses.
Vendor comparisonsEnterprise AI pricing modelsProduct positioning3w · 4r Comparison · Pillar · Glossary - Ginny CasuccioCustomer Outcomes
Edits the case-study library: outcome framing, the baseline behind every metric, and what a customer will stand behind.
Case study editingCustomer outcome metricsHealthcare data programs1w · 1r Insight · Case study - Gloria Qian ZhangGovernance & Procurement
Covers AI governance and procurement: ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act dates, and the audit trail buyers demand.
ISO/IEC 42001NIST AI RMFShadow AI7w · 4r Glossary · Comparison · Insight - Laura Bradley McCoyGTM & Partner Ecosystem
Covers pilot-to-production adoption, data sovereignty, and the platform choices that decide whether a pilot ships.
Pilot-to-production adoptionData sovereigntyIdentity & access for agents3w · 0r Comparison · Insight · Case study - Merve TengizProcurement & Vendor Strategy
Covers AI procurement: seat minimums, discount line items, renewal escalators, and the NIST AI RMF in contract terms.
AI procurementContract negotiationNIST AI RMF5w · 3r Insight · Comparison · Glossary - Michael CloughAgentic AI
Writes the agentic-AI pillar and the agent ROI playbook. Reviews technical claims across the site before publication.
Agentic AI definitionsAgent washingAgent ROI measurement3w · 6r Glossary · Insight · Pillar
Every page is signed and reviewed.
Writers and reviewers are listed on every article. Pages that mention Jarvis open with a disclosure banner — Jarvis is built by the same ASCENDING team that publishes Explore Agentic, and we say so on the page, in the footer, and in our editorial policy.
Frequently asked
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Who writes and reviews the work on this site?
Practitioners on the ASCENDING team, listed above with the coverage area each one actually works in. Every article carries a named author; technical and regulated-industry pieces also carry a named reviewer, shown in the byline. Contributor pages link each person's public profile so the attribution is checkable rather than decorative.
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What does the reviewer byline actually mean?
That a second named person with working knowledge of the subject read the piece against its sources before publication and could defend its claims. It is not a rubber stamp: reviewers send pieces back, and several articles on this site changed materially in review — including one whose central vendor scoring was rebuilt after a reviewer found the comparison had been unfair to competitors.
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Do contributors write about products ASCENDING sells?
Yes, and those pages say so. ASCENDING builds Jarvis AI, so any article touching Jarvis or a direct competitor carries a disclosure banner and flags the Jarvis row in comparison tables. Contributors are expected to publish findings that do not favour our product, and the site contains several that do not.
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How are contributors assigned to a piece?
By working territory rather than availability. Someone who runs AWS agent infrastructure writes the Bedrock and AgentCore material; someone who works on evaluation programs writes the eval material. Where a piece crosses two territories, the second person becomes the reviewer. Each contributor page lists the specific systems, standards, and vendors behind that assignment.