Paul Lacey's Blog Posts

Paul Lacey

Paul leads product marketing and AI engineering teams at Galileo (now a part of Cisco). As a former hardware and software engineer, he focuses on helping teams deploy AI agents with comprehensive observability and guardrails. Prior to Cisco, Paul led marketing teams at several Data & AI companies. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

The Hidden Cost of Agentic AI: Why Most Projects Still Die Before Production
Observability
9 Minute Read

The Hidden Cost of Agentic AI: Why Most Projects Still Die Before Production

Five costs hide between your demo and production: tokens, data, evals, guardrails, and a pricing model that punishes you for checking the other four.
AI Is Amazing, the Bills Are Not: Why Tokenomics Is the New FinOps
Observability
9 Minute Read

AI Is Amazing, the Bills Are Not: Why Tokenomics Is the New FinOps

Agentic AI spends unpredictably and providers are repricing toward the meter. Here's why enterprises are repatriating AI to their own hardware, and what it takes.