AI Office Hours

A series about what you can and can't do with AI.
Explained by experts, for engineering leaders.
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Meet the Experts

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Taylor Young
Chief Strategy Officer

Shapes company strategy in consultation with CoLab’s biggest customers.

Eric Burbank
Dir. Industry Strategy & Transformation

Ex-iRobot ML & AI product leader holding 10 US Patents.

Nick Shryock
Mechanical Forward Deployed Engineer

Runs AI readiness assessments for large engineering orgs.

Shahed Saleh
Senior Product Manager, Applied AI

Leads CoLab's AI product and knowledge model; ex-DarwinAI.

Daan Goossens
VP of Strategy

Leads CoLab's strategic initiatives; MBA.

Nathan Power
Mechanical Engineer

Leads AutoReview, CoLab's AI design checker; 
ex-Tesla, patent holder.

Lucas Walker
Solutions Engineer

Helps engineering teams apply AI to workflows; former Toyota manufacturing engineer.

1 million +

AI analysis steps on real engineering data.

56+ years

Combined engineering and product development experience.

9

Collective advanced techincal degrees and certifications.

The Full Series

01

Is your engineering data ready for AI, and how would you even know?

Many engineering organizations are hesitant to adopt AI out of fear their data isn’t ready. That’s a valid concern, but it shouldn’t prevent you from starting. This article covers practical ways to get your data AI-ready, and presents use cases to tackle right away.

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Should a capable engineering organization just build its own AI?

Capable engineering teams can build valuable AI tools, and sometimes they should. What they tend to underestimate is the permanent work required to connect those tools to engineering systems, keep them current and secure, and create an experience engineers will actually adopt.

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Why do I have to keep re-explaining my work to AI?

AI can only work with the context it receives or can access during execution. Here is why every new session feels like a reset, what that costs engineering teams, and the practical system leaders can build to carry knowledge from one task to the next.

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Why doesn’t AI give the same answer every time?

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How can AI actually help with DFM reviews?

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Is there a risk that engineers will rely too much on AI?

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How can engineering leaders tell whether an AI proof of concept will scale?

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