Listen in as we talk with Kris Mondlane, AI Product & Innovation Leader in Somerville, MA.

About Kris: He has 10+ years translating emerging technologies into scalable, high-impact solutions for Fortune 500s, governments, and startups. His expertise is in AI product strategy, enterprise adoption, and rapid prototyping, delivering internal tools and customer-facing products across insurance, fintech, and healthcare.

His Approach: Kris combines user-centered design, agile execution, and executive facilitation to drive measurable performance gains, revenue lift, and improved customer outcomes.

In the episode he shares his knowledge about:

--Sundai Club

--Evals for Agents

--Observability, Alignment

--Anthropic's recent blog post on how they do evals

--Deterministic vs Non-deterministic programming

--Finding "the best worst option"

--Governance HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO

--Negative Externalities

--Agent Memory

--Asking AI to articulate one's blind spots

--Inference, Models, GPU's

--BAA's (Business Associate Agreement)

--The Holy Grail: Running One's Own Model

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Kris on LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/kriscmon

Kris on Github

https://github.com/pappacorleone

Anthropic Blog post: "Demystifying evals for AI agents"

***The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of the systems they measure.***

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agents

Sundai.Club (Weekly AI Hackathons at MIT)

https://www.sundai.club/

HOST LINKS

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Robert Moran

Boston, MA

LinkedIn profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/

Director Audience, Community, and Revenue

Howland, Gorham & Wolf Productions

E: Robert (at) hgandw.com

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