Talk · Tech After Dark · Flowood, MS · August 11, 2026

AI Without the Theater.

A ten-minute talk with four questions for choosing AI projects that can earn their keep, given by J.C. Hiatt, partner at Praxient.

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The take-home

Four questions before you build or buy anything.

01

A real, repeating workflow?

A workflow that runs fifty times a week has room to repay the work of changing it.

02

Does it move a number?

Name the revenue recovered or the staff time saved before the project starts.

03

Human in the loop?

A person should approve the decisions that carry real consequences.

04

Can you turn it off?

You need a clear off switch and a way to return to the old process.

Built to be measured and stopped

Keep going

The workflow is the strategy.

The article explains how to split the work between a model and ordinary software. You can also talk with us about a workflow in your own business.