The AI Pilot Trap - Why 80% of Enterprise AI Never Reaches Production
Eighty percent of enterprise AI pilots never reach production. The failure mode is consistent across sectors, and it is almost never about the model. Richard Muirhead examines why the production gap is a data infrastructure and governance problem masquerading as an AI problem — and what the organis…
Your Data Strategy Has No Business Case. That's Why the Board Ignores It.
The majority of enterprise data strategies are technically coherent and strategically invisible. They describe capabilities, platforms, and architectural ambitions that mean nothing to the executives who fund them. Richard Muirhead examines why data strategies fail at the board level — not because …
What Enterprise AI Governance Actually Looks Like in 2026
A policy document, an ethics committee, and a model registry that nobody updates is not AI governance — it's the appearance of governance. In this episode, Richard Muirhead dissects three documented enterprise AI governance failures across banking, telecoms, and retail, and defines the three non-ne…
Data Governance Is Not a Compliance Function. Stop Treating It Like One.
Most enterprise data governance programs are failing — not because of bad policy or weak tooling, but because of a single structural mistake: they were designed as compliance functions. Richard Muirhead makes the case that governance-as-compliance is an AI delivery bottleneck that no technology inv…
The CDO Role is Being Redefined - Most CDOs Don't Know it yet.
Hosted by Richard Muirhead — Fractional CDO, AI strategist, and former IBM Distinguished Engineer with 30+ years of enterprise experience and 130+ patents — each episode delivers a single sharp thesis, three sector-specific evidence cases, a practical decision framework, and one falsifiable predict…
Introducing Ex Machina Podcast by Fabric Ventures
The world is entering an era where machines act, earn and spend on our behalf: the Machine Economy. We are all, knowingly or not, summoning a deus ex machina, with no idea how the plot resolves.
Hosted by Richard Muirhead and the team at Fabric Ventures, Ex Machina brings you the founders buildin…
Built for Uncertainty: Evgeny Gaevoy on Wintermute and the Future of Markets
Evgeny Gaevoy joins Richard Muirhead for Episode 1 of Ex Machina.
Evgeny founded Wintermute in 2017. What followed was far from a straight line: an early thesis that quickly became obsolete, years spent taking on opportunities larger competitors ignored, a close call with runway, and eventually the…
When Is the Future Actually Arriving? | Zachary Bogue, DCVC
What separates a real technological inflection point from hype?
In Episode 2 of Ex Machina, Richard Muirhead sits down with Zachary Bogue, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at DCVC, to explore how investors decide what is genuinely becoming possible and what is still too early, overhyped or unlikely t…
When Does “Too Early” Become “Right Now”? | Zachary Bogue, DCVC
When does a technology stop being “too early” and become ready to matter?
In Episode 2 of Ex Machina, Richard Muirhead sits down with Zachary Bogue, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at DCVC, to explore how investors decide when frontier technologies are actually ready to become real businesses.
Zach…
Justin Drake & Kubi Mensah: Ethereum's Future in the Age of AI
Can Ethereum keep pace with accelerating AI?
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake joins Kubi Mensah, founder of Gattaca and the team behind Titan, to explore Ethereum's future, from Lean Ethereum and post-quantum security to autonomous agents and the infrastructure needed for a machine economy.
Hoste…
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