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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
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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.