The Cross-Industry Architect: From the Hangar Floor to the Boardroom. A Field Manual for Enterprise Agentic AI

Most agentic AI never ships. The bottleneck isn't model capability. It's architecture, identity, residency, and audit discipline.The Cross-Industry Architect is the field manual for Chief AI Officers, CTOs, and enterprise architects who need to move agentic AI from proof-of-concept to regulated production. Drawn from 21 years of building mission-critical systems across aviation, financial services, healthcare, energy, and retail, this is the AI transformation playbook the CAIO role has been waiting for.Inside the 36-chapter field manual:The 12-point production hardening checklist that decides which agentic workflows survive their first regulatory auditThe 8-stage gating playbook from PoC to production — with the gate failures that explain most enterprise AI incidentsA single reference architecture specialized across five industries with shipping code: retail personalization, banking-grade financial agents, HIPAA-compliant healthcare, IROPS aviation recovery, and predictive maintenance for energy29 architecture diagrams, 11 runnable code modules, 92 passing tests14 named, dated, citable case studies including the Klarna two-chapter arc, BMW × Figure, Cursor, IBM Google AP2, Visa TAP, Mastercard, PayPal DeepMind, Meta V-JEPA 2, Perplexity, Glean, Claude Gov, and Claude CoworkThe architectural thesis: one stack, applied with composition discipline across industries, organized through a central platform team, delivered through gated stages, continuously assured. Everything else is implementation detail.For the executive making the AI strategy call, this book maps every architectural decision to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and the sector overlays (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR, GxP).By the final chapter, you will know what to build, in what order, with what governance, and how to prove it shipped.From the hangar floor to the boardroom — agentic AI that actually ships in regulated enterprise. Read more