The Kasseh Desk

By Quentin Kasseh
Firsthand notes on software, decision systems, and company-building

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agent harness · Aug 11, 2026

Rent the Model. Own the Harness.

The same model scored 30.98% in one harness and 46.34% in another. Same brain, different scaffolding. Here is the market, the receipts, and the exact harness for each workload you run.

Quentin Kasseh

Enterprise AI · Mar 16, 2026

Decision Intelligence and the Semantic Foundation

Gartner just published their first Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms. A practitioner's read on what it gets right, what it implies about semantic foundations, and where the category goes next.

Quentin Kasseh

Enterprise AI · Mar 4, 2026

Your Data Is Hostage and the Ransom Is an AI Subscription

Salesforce locked Slack data behind its own API. Meta kicked competing AIs off WhatsApp. The pattern is everywhere: platforms are capturing your institutional meaning and selling the intelligence back to you as a subscription

Quentin Kasseh

knowledge graphs · Feb 7, 2026

A Knowledge Graph Is Not a Technology

A knowledge graph is not a graph database. It's a pattern built from three components: an ontology, instances, and relationships. Here's how to build one.

Quentin Kasseh

Enterprise AI · Jan 16, 2026

Are You Oversharing With Your AI?

I read every privacy policy for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Every provider has the same two-tier system: consumer accounts pay with data, business accounts pay with money. Same AI, different defaults.