This is the first issue of The Vantage Pilot. The intent is to be useful to one specific reader: someone responsible for evaluating, deploying, or governing agentic AI in a regulated environment, with little time for marketing-grade content.
What I want this digest to be, and not be. It is not a drip campaign — there is no funnel attached. It is not a republication of the articles — those live on the site. It is correspondence: one founder note, the month's articles in two sentences each, and a few links to primary sources that crossed my desk and shaped how the team thinks. Five minutes to read, monthly, no other email.
The recurring theme is the gap between platforms that produce contemporaneous operating evidence and platforms that produce documents about evidence. The useful buying test is to run one workflow, retrieve its decision record, and ask another reviewer to reproduce it. The articles below work through that distinction.