In no hurry: why Quaive saw predictive AI coming in 2013 and still has not shipped it
Quaive's 2013 vision document, Systems of Intent, described predictive software that reads user context and acts before the user asks. Thirteen years later that capability is cheap and widely available, and Quaive still has not built it into the product. This talk explains why the pace of AI integration is a deliberate choice, and what that choice commits a product owner to say in public during the current AI wave.
Details
For institutions, the productive question is no longer whether to use AI. It is which capabilities to integrate, on whose terms, with what off-switch, and which to keep out of the platform on principle.
Guido Stevens shows how a product that has held this position for thirteen years answers those questions, and how an institution can put the same questions to its own platforms and vendors.
What attendees take away
- Pace as a decision — how to treat the speed of AI adoption as a choice the institution makes, rather than a default absorbed from its vendors.
- Four questions for any AI integration — what comes in, on whose terms, with what off-switch, and what stays out on principle.
- Two positions to avoid — demanding full autonomy from the technology market, and treating dependence on it as inevitable.
- A tested example — thirteen years of product decisions at Quaive, from the 2013 vision document to today, showing how the position holds up in a shipping product.