Ryo Hang
Founder & Editor, Explore Agentic
About Ryo
Ryo founded Explore Agentic in late 2025 to fill the gap between vendor marketing and analyst paywalls, and reviews every piece before it publishes. That review load is the beat. It runs through the Glean procurement series (the 100-seat minimum, FlexCredits metering, the admin staffing model, the discount playbook, the renewal checklist), the Model Context Protocol and ISO/IEC 42001 glossary entries, the agent registry and agent gateway field guides, the MCP gateway vendor-selection guide, and the agentic-AI pillar that separates real autonomy from agent washing.
The editorial standard applied to all of it is narrow and unglamorous: every price, date, and vendor claim carries a citation to a primary source, competitor tables get the same scrutiny as friendly ones, and the ASCENDING disclosure runs on any page that names Jarvis or a direct competitor. Prior engineering and product work spanned platform teams and AI infrastructure. Expect a house line on which enterprise AI claims survive a second read.
Pieces written or reviewed by Ryo
15 pieces across 4 formats on this site — 0 written by Ryo and 15 reviewed. A written byline means Ryo researched and drafted the piece; a reviewed byline means Ryo read it against its cited sources and could defend its claims before it published. Every row below is labelled either way.
- Pillar · Reviewed Agentic AI, minus the agent-washing
- Glossary · Reviewed Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Glossary · Reviewed ISO/IEC 42001:2023
- Glossary · Reviewed Agent washing
- Comparison · Reviewed Glean alternatives in 2026: eight platforms by procurement profile
- Comparison · Reviewed Glean vs Microsoft 365 Copilot: the bundled-vs-federated question
- Comparison · Reviewed Glean pricing in 2026 and the cheaper paths to the same outcome
- Insight · Reviewed What I Learned About Using MCP Tools Without Burning Money or Getting Bad Answers
- Insight · Reviewed Glean's 100-seat minimum: why mid-market buyers get priced out at the first quote
- Insight · Reviewed Glean FlexCredits, explained: how Enterprise Flex meters agent actions and what a credit actually costs
- Insight · Reviewed The Glean admin nobody quotes: a staffing model by org size
- Insight · Reviewed Glean discount playbook: 11 line items procurement should negotiate before signing
- Insight · Reviewed Enterprise AI Adoption Without the Complexity: A Practical Guide for Leaders Ready to Move Fast
- Insight · Reviewed Glean renewal checklist: five signals to renegotiate or leave before signing year two
- Insight · Reviewed Glean alternatives for regulated industries: the audit-trail question that decides procurement
Other contributors
- Alexander GromanContributing Writer
- Kelvin YuContributing Writer
- Soraya ZhengContributing Writer
- Cynthia ZhangContributing Writer
- Tommy TaoContributing Writer
- Chandler BensonContributing Writer
- Elias SaljukiContributing Editor
- Ginny CasuccioContributing Editor
- Gloria Qian ZhangContributing Editor
- Laura Bradley McCoyContributing Writer
- Merve TengizContributing Editor
- Michael CloughEditorial Advisor