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Insights is the public record of a working discipline: verify before you assert. This page is who I am, how the briefings are made, and why I publish them.

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Travis Havens
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Who I am

I am an enterprise transformation advisor; AI is the largest wave I have helped enterprises land, not the first. For 20+ years I have led enterprises through the major technology shifts, across internet, media, retail, life sciences, and energy: internet-scale operations, cloud migration, data platforms scaled from 4 billion to 65 billion events a day, DevOps adoption, and enterprise platform transitions. Today I do that work at TCS as a Program Director serving Fortune 500 clients. Transformation stopped being optional; making it worth the effort is the work I do best, and with AI that means making it useful, measurable, and trusted. The waves change; the discipline of landing them transfers.

The track record

comScore

Scaled a data platform from 4 billion to 65 billion events per day while cutting data delivery time 50%.

Walgreens

Led a global organization of 500+ technology professionals supporting 9,000+ retail locations; the named accountable leader on major incident calls.

NextEra Energy

Put a stalled 2+ year monitoring implementation back on a delivery footing through governance, delivery process, and leadership alignment.

ExxonMobil

Advise AI adoption across IT support and end-user experience, from use-case selection to measurement design.

What I do: make AI useful, measurable, trusted, and adopted

Useful

Choose what is worth deploying: pressure-test AI use cases on business value, and name the ones not worth pursuing.

Measurable

Design the measurement and human review that shows whether it is working, not dashboards that flatter it.

Trusted

Build adoption cases with ownership and human review designed in from the start, built to survive a skeptical room.

Adopted

Bring leaders and teams up to speed so the change sticks. Adoption is people work, and it is the part I like best.

How every briefing is made

1
A multi-perspective research run.

Six analytical lenses interrogate the topic independently, then the draft faces adversarial review: a deliberate attempt to break its claims.

2
Per-citation verification.

Every citation is traced to its primary source. Circulating figures with no real source get removed; popular versions that misquote the source get corrected from the original.

3
The ledger publishes with the briefing.

Checked, fabricated, corrected, demoted: the tally sits on the page, and the shaky claims are flagged, not buried.

4
Refresh triggers, named.

Every briefing states what would change our mind, so you can hold it accountable when the evidence moves.

Why I publish this

I build and run governed AI systems on my own time, and I publish the verification records. The first briefing's ledger is public: 12 citations checked, 0 fabricated, 5 corrected. I bring into my advice only what holds up. If a claim cannot survive that process, you will not read it here, and I will not recommend it to a client.

The system behind these pages: one human, several AI tools, one set of governance rules. Unattended runs only draft; judgment stays human.

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