Nic Gould
Solution Architect, XMPro
Nic Gould is a Solution Architect at XMPro, where he works on AI product architecture for industrial operations.
3 posts
From Harness to Graph: What the Next Wave of AI Engineering Means for Industrial Operations
In July 2026 the AI engineering conversation moved again — from the harness to graph engineering: designing an AI system's topology as an explicit, inspectable graph of agents, tools, deterministic logic, and governance gates. It turns out industrial operations has been building exactly this for over a decade.
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Your AI Agent Needs a Harness — Here's What That Means for Industrial Operations
The AI industry has learned a hard lesson over the last eighteen months: the model isn't the hard part — the runtime environment around it is. That infrastructure now has a name: the agent harness. Here's what it means for industrial operations, where wrong answers have physical consequences.
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The 90% You Don't See: What Building Industrial AI Agents Actually Requires - A Solution Architect's perspective on the build vs. buy decision for Multi-Agent Generative Systems
Authored by Nicholas Gould , XMPro Solutions Architect Claude Code is genuinely impressive. In a few hours, a technical user can build an agent that observes data, reflects on patterns, creates...
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