Beyond the Tech Stack: Why Your AI Tools Won't Save a Broken Team

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:45:00 -0400

Right now, somewhere a CEO is yeeting a six figure AI platform at a team and praying something sticks. That was the opening image Shannon Ryan left us with at this month’s AgileRTP meetup, and it only got sharper from there.

Shannon is VP of Marketing and a technology strategist at Veritas Automata, a firm that works with teams adopting AI in highly regulated industries: life sciences, pharma, manufacturing, and supply chain. She spends most of her time inside real teams, watching them try to adopt AI tools without breaking what already works. And what she’s seeing is a pattern that has nothing to do with the technology.

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Beyond the Tech Stack: Why Your AI Tools Won't Save a Broken Team