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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 27 — a027

# Ryan Kurt

**Profile.** Founder and CEO of The AI Lab, a strategy and advisory firm. Previously led AI initiatives at Salesforce and has spent over a decade advising Fortune 500 executives on AI.

**Role in the source.** Co-author of "Teach Your AI How You Make Decisions," with [[entity-jen-stave|Jen Stave]] and [[entity-john-winsor|John Winsor]].

**Attributed contributions in this vault.** Shares authorship of the article's concepts, frameworks, and claims — [[concept-judgment-infrastructure]], [[concept-digital-labor-governance]], [[framework-scenario-based-extraction]], [[claim-deployment-is-table-stakes]], and the rest — and of the authorial quotes [[quote-divide-stems-from-judgment]], [[quote-agents-operate-on-explicit]], and [[quote-debate-externalizes-reasoning]]. His Salesforce/advisory background informs the enterprise-deployment framing.