Matt Doughty

Agents After Dark, powered by Prefactor

Business EN ↓ 4 episodes

Agents After Dark is a podcast exploring what actually happens when AI agents move from demos into real-world production environments. Hosted by Matt Doughty , Co-Founder and CEO at Prefactor the show features conversations with founders, enterprise leaders, engineers, and operators building the next generation of agentic systems, AI infrastructure, and runtime platforms. We go beyond the hype to unpack the technical, operational, and organisational challenges behind deploying AI agents at scale — from governance and security to orchestration, observability, MCP, evaluation, and production rea...

Author

Matt Doughty

Episodes

Trustworthy AI, Where a Mistake Is Life and Death | Aaron Vanston, Co-Founder and CTO of Buildpass 02.07.2026 39:31

What happens when a wrong answer isn't a bad response, it's a safety incident? Construction is one of the least forgiving places to deploy AI. The data is scattered across drawings, site diaries, forms, and credentials, and getting it wrong can mean a defect, a blown budget, or an injury on site. BuildPass is putting AI into that environment anyway, without taking the human out of the loop. In thi...

Writing 90% of Your Code With AI: Vibe Coding at 60 Million Users| Matthew Blode at Linktree 22.06.2026 31:42

What happens when AI writes 90% of your code, and 60 million people rely on it? That's the reality for engineers shipping with tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor every day. The output is faster and often better, but it raises a harder question: How do you move at that speed without shipping the bug that breaks production? In this episode of Agents After Dark, Matt Doughty sits down w...

MCP in Prod: Becoming the Electricity Every AI Agent Needs | Ajay Jumar, Head of MCP at Infotrack 22.06.2026 40:17

What happens when your customer is an AI agent, not a person? For 25 years InfoTrack has sold authoritative legal and property data to people clicking through interfaces. Now it is making those same services callable by AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). That shift raises a sharper question: How do you actually run MCP in production inside a regulated enterprise? In this episode of...

What Does an AI Agent Buy? | Andrew Bird, Head of AI at Affinda 09.06.2026 32:23

What happens when software becomes the customer? For decades, products have been designed, marketed, and sold to humans. But as AI agents become increasingly capable of researching, evaluating, and making decisions on our behalf, a new question emerges: What does an AI agent actually buy? In this episode of Agents After Dark, Matt Doughty sits down with Andrew Bird, Head of AI at Affinda, to explo...