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Sidu Ponnappa

Sidu Ponnappa

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Insights|The realfast view

AI Transformation Patterns: The Playground

If you take AI transformation advice at face value, the work looks done once the tools are bought — and the business still moves like it did a year ago. The Playground is the pattern that turns the tools into a business that moves differently.

Apr 27th 2026|12 min read

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Insights|The realfast view

Don't Go AI Native

Every company is being told to go AI Native: hire a Head of AI, stand up a Centre of Excellence, reorg engineering around agents. For most companies that's the wrong conclusion — and Parnas, Conway, and Jevons explain why.

Mar 30th 2026|8 min read

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There Is No Product

The "SaaS is dead" debate is fixated on pricing. The real shift is deeper: AI is converting one class of software after another from a scarce asset into cheap, replicable inventory — and below that line, there is no product.

Feb 19th 2026|10 min read

There Is No Product

Insights|The realfast view

The 25% of Agentforce Interactions That Consume 75% of Your Budget

The AI Effort Paradox: Why trying harder costs more

May 29th 2025|5 min read

The 25% of Agentforce Interactions That Consume 75% of Your Budget

Stories|Field notes

When Reasoning Becomes Productized: AI Transformation x IT Services

AI is transforming IT services' economic model by decoupling revenue from headcount

May 20th 2025|5 min read

When Reasoning Becomes Productized: AI Transformation x IT Services

realfast labs|From the Labs

Why AI-first Salesforce implementation changes everything

Salesforce is a powerful tool, but traditional implementations often lead to data chaos within months. An AI-first Salesforce implementation changes that.

Jan 7th 2025|2 min read

Why AI-first Salesforce implementation changes everything

realfast labs|From the Labs

Async work is where the juice is.

Agents that can do work asynchronously will be crucial to make GenAI scalable and viable for enterprise workloads.

Sep 24th 2024|2 min read

Async work is where the juice is.

Stories|Field notes

Speed up Salesforce Implementations by 2x with Vayu

realfast Vayu is an orbital shift in how you deliver Salesforce.

Sep 23rd 2024|2 min read

Speed up Salesforce Implementations by 2x with Vayu

Insights|The realfast view

Here's how to evaluate AI Agents for Enterprise use-cases

A problem evaluation framework we've developed over the past year for both GenAI founders and investors.

Sep 20th 2024|3 min read

Here's how to evaluate AI Agents for Enterprise use-cases

realfast labs|From the Labs

Speed is the name of the game.

Faster implementations are the Hero USP for AI-based tooling, not cost savings.

Sep 18th 2024|3 min read

Speed is the name of the game.

Insights|The realfast view

Dumb agents beat smart ones.

You want your agents to be just smart enough to do the task consistently and reliably, and not any smarter than that.

Aug 20th 2024|3 min read

Dumb agents beat smart ones.

realfast labs|From the Labs

For AI Transformation, it helps to start small.

It actually helps to be less ambitious when starting out with AI transformation and take small, meaningful steps towards increasing velocity and throughput.

Aug 9th 2024|2 min read

For AI Transformation, it helps to start small.

Insights|The realfast view

For Applied AI, Data = Work

Foundational AI and Applied AI operate on entirely different planes. So, the approach you take to build an applied AI company will also be very different.

May 15th 2024|2 min read

For Applied AI, Data = Work

realfast labs|From the Labs

Our unit test agent is now in production.

We're talking 12-16x faster test creation, with 95%+ code coverage.

Apr 24th 2024|2 min read

Our unit test agent is now in production.

realfast labs|From the Labs

Agents are Minimum Viable Intelligences

For typical enterprise workloads, LLMs are raw material. You will need software engineering to turn them into a scalable resource.

Apr 12th 2024|1 min read

Agents are Minimum Viable Intelligences

Insights|The realfast view

Evals for Agents are a Hard Problem

Evaluating an AI tool's performance in real-world workflows is inherently more complex than benchmarking the models themselves on established datasets.

Apr 2nd 2024|2 min read

Evals for Agents are a Hard Problem

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Beyond Wrapper Tech

If you think slapping together a basic interface and calling an API is all it takes, then you're clueless about what's really involved.

Mar 21st 2024|2 min read

Beyond Wrapper Tech

Stories|Field notes

Hello World!

The Industrial Revolution for IT Services is here, and we are leading the charge.

Dec 11th 2023|2 min read

Hello World!