Mid-Market AI

Paragon - Managed Intelligence Provider (MIP™)

There's a war happening inside every major technology company about how AI agents should connect to the tools they use. This week Stripe dropped 288 product announcements including MCP support for their financial infrastructure. OpenAI shipped four CLI versions in eight days. Google launched an Agents CLI. Shopify open-sourced MCP plugins. The Linux Foundation took over the protocol. And a de...

Parker Harris, co-founder of Salesforce, stood on stage at TDX this week and asked publicly: "Why should you ever log into Salesforce again?" That question is what this episode is about. Headless AI means your software is about to start working whether a human touches it or not. But this is not about building autonomous agent fleets or ripping out your stack. It is about AI-driven action...

What is an AI Harness? $200 billion invested in AI. 6% meaningful impact. The gap has a name -and it's not the model. In this episode, Ariel Jalali breaks down the most practical concept in AI right now: the harness. The infrastructure layer that sits between your business and the raw model - and the reason most AI projects work in a demo and die in production. You'll learn the formula e...

Description: Uber's CTO just blew through the company's entire 2026 AI budget - and it's only April. Claude was named as the main driver. So if Uber can't afford it, should you even be trying? In this episode, Ariel Jalali, CEO of Paragon, breaks down why going all-in on a single AI vendor is a one-door decision you may not be able to walk back. He covers the three types of AI...

Host Ariel Jalali, CEO and CAIO of Paragon, sits down with Ron Kim, former Global CTO at Merck and founder of Ron Kim Advisory, to tackle the question every C-suite leader is asking: is your organization actually ready for AI, and is AI actually ready for you? Ron brings 35 years of hard-won perspective from global enterprise technology. He recently completed a five-year tenure as Global CTO at Me...