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Modernizing Beet Sugar Intake Quality Screening with AI on AWS

How Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative used computer vision on AWS to support faster load grading, improve inspection consistency, and model potential savings.

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Modernizing Beet Sugar Intake Quality Screening with AI on AWS

90%+ accuracy3 sec grading$5M potential savings

Customer

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative

Customer-specific impact

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative improved intake quality decisions with faster load grading, higher inspection consistency, and a potential $5M in annual savings.

Agriculture & Food Processing

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Supporting Condition-Based Maintenance at AB InBev’s Houston Brewery

Condition monitoringMaintenance workflowAmazon Monitron

Customer

AB InBev

Customer-specific impact

Tactical Edge deployed Amazon Monitron to bring vibration and temperature signals into daily equipment review and maintenance decisions.

Beverage Manufacturing

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Building an AI Knowledge System for Executive Search

Candidate knowledgeSource retrievalHuman review

Customer

Meridian Search

Customer-specific impact

Brought selected candidate, client, and market knowledge into a governed search and synthesis workflow.

Executive Search

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Turning Fragmented Marketing Data into a Unified AI Intelligence System

Unified dataDecision supportReporting workflow

Customer

Marketing organization

Customer-specific impact

Connected selected marketing data in a shared analysis and reporting workflow.

Marketing

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Organizing Medical Research in an AI Knowledge System

Research knowledgeSource traceabilityReviewed answers

Customer

Transformative Medicine

Customer-specific impact

Organized selected research knowledge for source-linked retrieval and reviewed answers.

Medical Research

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Building an AI System for Video Intelligence and Search

Video indexingSearch workflowOperational design

Customer

Clipr

Customer-specific impact

Structured selected video content for indexing, search, and review workflows.

Video Technology

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Operationalizing AI Knowledge Across Enterprise IT Environments

IT knowledgeSource retrievalService workflow

Customer

Red River

Customer-specific impact

Connected selected enterprise IT knowledge to source retrieval and service workflows.

Enterprise IT

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Scaling AI-Powered Insight Across a Global Consumer Brand

Cross-team knowledgeGoverned retrievalDecision support

Customer

Global consumer brand

Customer-specific impact

Connected selected consumer and marketing insight for cross-team retrieval and decision support.

Consumer Goods

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Operationalizing AI Knowledge Across Industrial Rail Operations

Operations knowledgeSource accessReview workflow

Customer

Industrial rail operator

Customer-specific impact

Organized selected rail operations knowledge for source access and review workflows.

Industrial Rail

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Operationalizing AI Insight for Materials Science Research

Experiment contextSource synthesisResearch workflow

Customer

Materials science organization

Customer-specific impact

Organized selected experiments and sources for synthesis within a research workflow.

Materials Science

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AI-Assisted Insight for Financial Services Analytics

Report contextGoverned retrievalAnalyst review

Customer

Financial services analytics platform

Customer-specific impact

Brought selected reports and source material into a governed, AI-assisted analyst workflow.

Financial Services

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Historical Predictive Maintenance Proof of Concept with Amazon Monitron

Historical POCAmazon MonitronCondition monitoring

Customer

HÖRMANN Digital

Customer-specific impact

Explored condition monitoring, alert workflows, and maintenance-team adoption in a bounded proof of concept. Amazon Monitron is no longer available to new customers.

Industrial Manufacturing

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AI Agent Adoption Is Rising. The Operating Model Can Be the Bottleneck

Agent Operations·Field Report

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From Copilots to Agentic Systems

AI Maturity·Guide

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Inside the Agentic Stack

Technical Architecture·Whitepaper

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Why Agentic AI Fails Before Production

AI Operations·Whitepaper

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Governing Autonomous Systems

Governance & Risk·Whitepaper

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Operationalizing the Agentic Enterprise

AI Operations·Guide

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Agentic Process Transformation

Business Process Automation·Playbook

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Moonshot Migrations

Custom Application Modernization·Web Guide

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ISV Freedom Program

Custom Software Strategy·Web Guide

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Read, Reversible Write, Irreversible Write: Capping Agent Blast Radius

Classify every agent tool as read, reversible write, or irreversible write. Confirm only the third tier, and approval stays meaningful instead of becoming a rubber-stamp queue.

October 12, 2026

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Agent Release Gates: Evaluation Harnesses Beyond Demo Accuracy

How to turn an agent evaluation harness into an actual release gate: frozen golden task sets, trajectory capture, five pass/fail gates, and forced reruns on every change.

October 7, 2026

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AI-Native SDLC: From Faster Code to Reliable Production

Coding agents compress implementation, but requirements, integration, review queues and approvals often dominate delivery. Here is how to measure and rebuild the lifecycle.

October 7, 2026

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Red-Teaming Enterprise LLM Apps: Find Prompt Injection First

A repeatable red-teaming program for agentic systems: threat categories, an adversarial test corpus, trace-level scoring, and a continuous review cadence instead of a one-time audit.

October 1, 2026

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Data Contracts for AI: Catching Model Risk When Schemas Change

A renamed column or new enum value can degrade AI behavior before any data-quality check fires. Here is how to make data contracts enforceable with Glue, Iceberg, and CI gates.

September 30, 2026

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GPU Scheduling and Bin-Packing for AI Inference on EKS

Time-slicing, MIG partitioning, node affinity, and priority preemption each fit different inference workloads. A decision framework for choosing per workload on Amazon EKS.

September 29, 2026

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The Agent Memory Problem: Durable State for Long-Running Workflows

Enterprise agent workflows span days and multiple handoffs. Here is how to separate working, episodic, and shared memory, and checkpoint state that survives restarts and audits.

September 28, 2026

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Agent Identity and Least Privilege: Zero Trust for AI Agents

A practical IAM framework for AI agents on AWS: short-lived credentials, per-action authorization at the tool boundary, MCP server-side identity checks, and audit trails auditors accept.

September 21, 2026

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How Agents Are Changing Enterprise Search: From Results to Evidence

Agentic search can plan, retrieve, check, and refine an answer across business systems. Learn when the extra loop is useful and how to measure its quality, cost, and control.

September 17, 2026

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Graph-Augmented Retrieval vs Pure Vector Search: An Evaluation Method

Vector search alone struggles with multi-hop and entity-resolution questions. Here is how to combine Neptune or Neo4j with embeddings, and how to prove the added complexity pays.

September 17, 2026

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How to Build an Enterprise AI Agent Harness That Holds Up in Production

A practical design and evaluation checklist for the context, tools, permissions, execution loop, and evidence an enterprise AI agent needs to complete real work.

September 16, 2026

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Terraform Drift: A Governed Reconciliation Playbook for AWS

Manual console edits and undocumented hotfixes split declared state from actual state. Here is how to measure Terraform drift in your own AWS accounts and reconcile it under review.

September 7, 2026

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How to Choose an AWS Agentic AI Implementation Partner in 2026

A practical guide to evaluating partners for governed agentic workflows on AWS, including transparent selection criteria, comparable partner profiles, and the evidence to request before you buy.

September 2, 2026

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AWS Database Modernization Factory: Beyond Migration Tasks

A practical AWS-native Factory for choosing the right database target, proving functional equivalence, controlling cutover, and stabilizing production.

August 26, 2026

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MCP vs ACP: Building a Shared Fabric for Enterprise Agent Collaboration

MCP's 2026-07-28 stateless core and Agent Client Protocol solve different integration problems. Learn where each belongs and how to govern the capabilities around them.

August 26, 2026

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The Enterprise AI Software Factory: A Practical Operating Model

Model intelligence is becoming abundant. The durable advantage is a governed system that turns authorized signals into verified improvements with dependable controls.

August 19, 2026

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The Cost of Cloud Repatriation: A Workload-Level Decision Framework

Repatriation can work for selected steady workloads, but burst capacity, staffing, refresh cycles, and reversal risk belong in the comparison.

August 10, 2026

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AI Agents for Enterprise Workflows: Practical Use Cases and Implementation Patterns

Explore how AI agents transform enterprise workflows across sales, operations, and compliance with implementation patterns and architectural guidance.

April 28, 2026

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Amazon Bedrock Enterprise Guide: Foundation Models at Scale

A practical guide to model selection, security controls, RAG pipelines, cost optimization, and production architecture patterns on Amazon Bedrock.

April 28, 2026

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AWS AI Services Comparison: Bedrock vs SageMaker vs Kendra vs OpenSearch

A detailed comparison of AWS AI services for enterprise use cases, with practical guidance on where each service fits.

April 28, 2026

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AWS GenAI Architecture Patterns for Production Systems

Production architecture patterns for generative AI on AWS, from RAG pipelines and agentic workflows to multi-model routing and real-time inference.

April 28, 2026

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Building Multi-Agent Systems for the Enterprise

A technical guide to orchestration, inter-agent communication, state management, and the failure modes that emerge in production.

April 28, 2026

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From Chatbots to Agents: Why Generative AI Alone Is Not Enough

Generative AI changed what machines can produce. Agentic AI changes what machines can do and how enterprises design work around them.

April 28, 2026

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Generative AI Cost Optimization: A Guide for Enterprise Teams

Practical strategies for controlling generative AI costs through model selection, prompt design, caching, routing, and AWS infrastructure choices.

April 28, 2026

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How to Implement Generative AI in Enterprise: A Practical Guide

A practical path from strategy and use-case selection through architecture, deployment, and production operations on AWS.

April 28, 2026

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What Is Agentic AI? A Practical Guide for Enterprise Leaders

Learn how agentic AI differs from traditional assistants and what enterprises need to operate systems that reason, plan, and act.

April 28, 2026

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The Enterprise AI Developer Stack in 2025

An overview of the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure powering enterprise AI systems, and how the layers work together in production.

December 11, 2025

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Why Multi-Agent Systems Fail Before Production

Why multi-agent systems break before production and the architecture patterns that address common coordination, state, and reliability failures.

December 19, 2025

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Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach

Why successful agentic AI applications begin with a measurable business problem rather than a technology or model selection.

November 10, 2025

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How Agentic AI Systems Work: A Look Inside Governed Infrastructure

A technical guide to orchestration, state, tool execution, evaluation, and controls for agentic AI workflows.

October 25, 2025

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AI Assistants vs. Agentic Systems: Understanding the Difference

Compare prompt-driven assistants with agentic workflows that plan steps, use approved tools, maintain state, and route work for review.

October 17, 2025

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Generative AI Personalization: Designing Real-Time Experiences

How to design and evaluate generative AI personalization with approved data, clear boundaries, privacy controls, and measurable outcomes.

September 5, 2025

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Generative AI in Financial Services: Beyond Automation to Insight

How financial institutions move beyond task automation toward governed insight and intelligent decision support.

August 29, 2025

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Tactical Edge Selected as Winner of AWS Prospect Plus Prospecting Program Prize

July 2, 2026

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Tactical Edge Approved for AWS Migration Competency

June 25, 2026

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AWS Summit New York

Regional AWS Summit·2026 · New York, NY

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AWS Summit Los Angeles

Regional AWS Summit·2026 · Los Angeles, CA

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AWS Summit Toronto 2026

Conference·June 3, 2026 · Toronto, ON

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SOF Week 2026

Conference·May 18–21, 2026 · Tampa, FL

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Tactical Edge Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS

March 2026

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National Small Business Conference

Conference·January 26-28, 2026

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AWS re:Invent 2025

Conference·December 1-5, 2025

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AWS Washington DC Summit

Conference·June 10-11, 2025

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