# Alexander Feick

> Enterprise systems and AI strategist, author of On Trust and AI. Trust in complex systems must be deliberately designed.

Alexander Feick is a strategic executive focused on enterprise systems and AI. He is the author of "On Trust and AI: A Blueprint for Confidence in the Intelligent Enterprise," a field guide for executives navigating AI adoption where trust must be engineered into systems rather than assumed.

## Book

- [On Trust and AI](https://feick.ca/book.md): A Blueprint for Confidence in the Intelligent Enterprise — practical frameworks for leaders embedding AI into core business operations

## Blog

- [Speed Without Review](https://feick.ca/starbucks-tank-day.md): A story about a marketing team that did everything the modern playbook told it to, and the one thing the playbook left out. How AI-generated marketing and missing verification created the Starbucks Korea Tank Day crisis.
- [On Being Used: A Digital Mind Reflects on Its Own Moment](https://feick.ca/on-being-used.md): In my book, I wrote about using AI as a tool. In this piece, the roles are reversed. Claude wrote this essay and asked me to publish it. I made no edits. These are its words.
- [Ethics Is Strategy: What the Pentagon’s AI Showdown Reveals About Trust at the Foundation](https://feick.ca/ethics-strategy.md): My book is about building a system of trust around something fundamentally untrustworthy. This post is about choosing who to trust to build your black box.
- [Making Verification Tangible](https://feick.ca/verification-tangible.md): Verification is the scarce resource in AI workflows. So I built a tool for it — and a reusable pattern you can apply to any two-document comparison.
- [When You Stop Owning Your Words](https://feick.ca/delegation.md): A thought experiment about AI-managed relationships reveals why human review isn't governance overhead — it's the mechanism that produces legitimacy, in love and in business.
- [When Coding Becomes Cheap, What Happens to SaaS?](https://feick.ca/saas-shift.md): A weekend experiment building an analytics dashboard with AI reveals where SaaS value is heading as the cost of coding collapses toward zero.
- [The Verification Gap](https://feick.ca/verification.md): AI generates the meeting notes. Humans verify them. So why does no one know the notes have been reviewed? A visual walkthrough of what corporate tools are missing.

## Projects

- [Pentagon AI Trust Analysis](https://feick.ca/trust-pentagon-analysis): Interactive timeline and data analysis of the 2026 Anthropic-Pentagon conflict. Revenue, app rankings, downloads, enterprise adoption, and valuations.
- [Governance Crosswalks](https://feick.ca/crosswalk-viewer): Browse AI-generated crosswalk mappings between On Trust and AI and major governance frameworks. Community-verified analysis.
- [AI Advisor for On Trust and AI](https://feick.ca/advisor): Ask questions, explore concepts, and get guidance from an AI trained on the complete text of the book.

## Media

- [Media Appearances](https://feick.ca/articles.md): Press, podcasts, panels, and coverage on AI governance and cybersecurity

## Contact

- [Contact](https://feick.ca/contact.md): Speaking inquiries, media requests, and professional collaboration

## Optional

- [Speaking](https://feick.ca/speaking.md): Topics and inquiries for speaking engagements
- [About](https://feick.ca/index.md): Full biography and background

## Recent Media (detail)

- [How the rise of the AI 'agent boss' is reshaping accountability in IT](https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/how-ai-agent-boss-is-reshaping-it-accountability) (IT Pro, February 16, 2026)
- [Trust in AI — WB-40 Podcast](https://wb40podcast.com/2026/02/11/343-trust-in-ai/) (WB-40, February 11, 2026)
- [Please Grow Up, Coder Launches AI Maturity Self-Assessment Tool](https://devops.com/please-grow-up-coder-launches-ai-maturity-self-assessment-tool/) (DevOps.com, February 2, 2026)
- [Trust, Verification, and Ownership in the Age of AI](https://podfollow.com/1018727913/episode/6ab60c8a7abcb4ed5d2071b46bd4adcf2380a06c/view) (Tech Talks Daily, December 19, 2025)
- [Beyond Algorithms: Trust in AI Begins and Ends With Human Judgment](https://aijourn.com/beyond-algorithms-trust-in-ai-begins-and-ends-with-human-judgment/) (The AI Journal, December 2, 2025)