<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Proqtor — Insights</title><description>Field notes on production AI for teams across the US and Europe.</description><link>https://proqtor.ai/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The EU AI Act and US state laws for autonomous agents: what is enforceable now</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/ai-act-for-autonomous-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/ai-act-for-autonomous-agents/</guid><description>A dated, sourced map of AI agent rules in mid-2026: which EU AI Act and US state obligations apply today, which are delayed, and what to build for now.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Governance</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>What actually kills agent deployments (and how to not be a statistic)</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/lessons-from-failed-agent-deployments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/lessons-from-failed-agent-deployments/</guid><description>Gartner expects 40% of agentic AI projects cancelled by 2027. The failures are operational, not model quality. Six documented patterns, the control for each, and a pre-mortem.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Automation</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>When your AI vendor retires the model you rely on, your work can break overnight</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/model-deprecation-operational-risk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/model-deprecation-operational-risk/</guid><description>When a vendor retires or quietly changes the AI model your work depends on, the instructions you tuned, the tests you trust, and your costs can break overnight, with no change on your side. Here is how to stay ahead of it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AgentOps</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>AI models you can download and run yourself: when they are the right call</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/open-weight-models-in-regulated-deployment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/open-weight-models-in-regulated-deployment/</guid><description>A sourced guide to running AI models you can download and run yourself (Llama, Mistral, Qwen) inside your own environment, whether your work is regulated or not: what that really means, how to host them privately, and a clear rule for when to choose them.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Deployment</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>When your AI assistant shows someone a file they were never allowed to see</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/permissions-aware-retrieval/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/permissions-aware-retrieval/</guid><description>Build an AI assistant on your own documents the easy way and it can surface a salary letter or a sealed contract to the wrong person. The fix: the agent only sees what that person is already allowed to see, and personal details are masked.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Deployment</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>What you can and cannot prove about the AI models you rent from an outside lab</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-frontier-model-transparency-gap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-frontier-model-transparency-gap/</guid><description>An honest account of what you cannot check about the leading AI models run by outside labs, why they keep it private, and what you can still control: your own tests, a record of every step, and locking the exact version you trust.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AgentOps</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>Why an AI agent costs more than the bill suggests: retries, lookups, and dead ends</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-agent-retries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-agent-retries/</guid><description>The price an AI vendor charges per word hides what real work actually costs. To finish one task an agent retries, looks things up, and hits dead ends, and each one multiplies the bill. Measure the cost to finish the task instead.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AgentOps</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>Where your prompts go: what the big AI vendors keep, and what changed</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/where-your-prompts-go/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/where-your-prompts-go/</guid><description>A 2024-2026 map of what Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google keep from your prompts: retention windows, training use, consumer versus enterprise tiers, and the policy changes regulated teams must verify in a DPA.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Governance</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>A one-page record for every AI agent before it ever touches real work</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/agent-skills-a-manifest-for-every-workflow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/agent-skills-a-manifest-for-every-workflow/</guid><description>An AI agent nobody has written down is an agent nobody can answer for. One short record per agent names who owns it, what it is allowed to touch, what it can spend, how risky it is, and how to undo it, all before its first real run.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AgentOps</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>Why 40% of agent projects get cancelled, and the four controls that save them</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/why-agent-projects-get-cancelled/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/why-agent-projects-get-cancelled/</guid><description>Gartner expects most agentic AI projects to be scrapped by 2027. The failures are operational, not model quality, and four controls keep a project alive.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Governance</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>Cost per finished job: the one AI number your CFO will actually trust</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/cost-per-completed-task/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/cost-per-completed-task/</guid><description>What an AI vendor bills per word tells you almost nothing about real work. The cost to finish one actual task, a cleared invoice or a resolved ticket, is the number finance can underwrite and the one that tells you when to automate more.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AgentOps</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>Running AI agents inside your own walls, where your data is allowed to live</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/inside-the-trust-boundary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/inside-the-trust-boundary/</guid><description>A field guide to keeping your AI agents inside your own environment: your prompts, documents, and a record of every step stay on systems you control, and every request passes through one checkpoint you can see.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Deployment</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item><item><title>How to know when an AI agent is safe to let run on its own</title><link>https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-autonomy-ladder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://proqtor.ai/blog/the-autonomy-ladder/</guid><description>A step-by-step path where an agent earns more responsibility only as it proves itself, with the proof required at each step and the high-stakes work, like a claim or a payment, that should never skip a step.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Automation</category><author>Albert Garcia Hernandez</author></item></channel></rss>