How does a mission-driven foundation balance the potential of AI with the imperative to protect sensitive data and donor trust? The Jerome L. Greene Foundation’s roadmap offers a practical model for intentional adoption: prioritizing governance, human-centered review, and clear impact over technological novelty.
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Are you stuck in a fire drill cycle?
Is your staff in a constant “fire drill,” scrambling to keep up with your organization’s IT needs without a structured approach? Organizations that experience rapid change often find themselves in this situation, where IT teams are swallowed by tedious, manual tasks and lack the capacity to focus on strategic initiatives.
Discover how a seamless IT process can help you escape this cycle, cut operational drag, and empower your business to execute with speed, confidence, and focus.
When lack of IT strategy creates unforced errors
Frank, the founder of an innovative e-commerce, direct-to-consumer business, hired a talented and capable web developer to redesign the company’s website. As they were drawing close to launch, the web developer requested credentials for the domain registration service to make a few minor DNS updates and switch from the old website to the new, beautiful one. A well-intentioned project manager provided the web developer with the domain management account’s super admin credentials before taking off for a long weekend.
Later that night, a few staff members realized they were no longer getting emails, and their customer service team started reporting bounced messages and automated systems failing. Even worse, marketing and sales emails were generating embarrassing flurries of messages and confused inquiries as attempts to reach them failed.
Inside the Tame the Tech Beast launch party
Recap the electric launch of Tame the Tech Beast! Relive the night featuring an insightful interview with legendary founder Cindy Gallop, a unique tech art installation, and the strategic blueprint for turning IT from a burden into a growth engine.
Lannan’s new, office and community space in New York’s historic Bayard-Condict Building
When Lannan Foundation closed operations in Santa Fe and set up new operations in New York City at the end of 2024, Macktez was given an opportunity to help design technical solutions for its new headquarters in the historic and landmarked Bayard-Condict building (the only building in NYC designed by renowned architect Louis Sullivan) in downtown Manhattan.
Tête-à-Tech: AI and Consciousness: What Is Actually Happening In There (According to Mathematics)?
Macktez Founder and CEO Noah Landow joins physicist Jeffrey Berger, Ph.D., to explore AI and consciousness: whether AI is truly “thinking,” the math behind transformers, and limits like data poisoning.
An AI loophole in your pocket: Why Apple’s Writing Tools require a second look
Most users won’t find it easy to distinguish between the privacy Apple promises generally for “Apple Intelligence” and the terms and conditions of your free ChatGPT account. The problem is that when you use free genAI tools, there is no guarantee that your input data (proprietary emails, drafts, or internal notes) won’t be used to get added to and train the large language model (LLM), which makes that input essentially public. This seamless OS integration, activated by a single menu tap on selected text, facilitates behavior we strongly advise against: sending work-related data through a free genAI application.
Redundancy by design: Engineering a high-availability infrastructure for a high-throughput creative firm
Macktez was engaged to architect a ground-up, zero-compromise infrastructure covering wired networking, wireless, compute, and storage. Every layer was designed with redundancy as a first-order constraint: redundant power, controllers, chassis, and paths throughout. The result is an environment that has delivered zero infrastructure downtime since deployment, with real-world internal file transfer throughput of 5–7 Gbps. This performance is comparable to the local NVMe storage of a modern high-end workstation, delivered over a fully shared, enterprise-grade SAN.