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Bridging the gap between AI vendor promises and real-world deployment outcomes.

Kathleen Bartin

AI Adoption Strategist • Prodigal Paradigm LLC

What I Do

Organizations buy AI tools. Then they discover that buying the tool and actually deploying it are two entirely different problems. The vendor leaves. The team is uncertain. The technology sits.

I close that gap. I work with teams to build the scaffolding that makes AI agents actually work in production — the knowledge bases, the prompt architecture, the feedback loops, the human processes that turn a brilliant but amnesiac inference engine into a reliable colleague.

The quality of your agent depends on what you hand it, not how smart it is.

Recent Work

Human Fred vs. LLM Fred

A paper on why AI agents drift, fabricate, and forget — and what to do about it. Published April 2026.

Equal Playing Fields

Nine-month longitudinal cognition study submitted to Google DeepMind's Kaggle competition. Six measurement streams. Judging in progress.

RAVEN

An autonomous discovery agent for antique jewelry. Open source on GitHub. Built entirely through human-AI collaboration.

Coffee with Claude

A community AI literacy program at Millbrook Library. Launching June 2026. Making AI accessible to everyone, not just engineers.

Let's talk about what your agents aren't telling you.