# Alexander Feick

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

Alexander Feick is Vice President at eSentire Labs, focused on applied research, adversarial testing, and operational transformation of AI-driven security systems. 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

- [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)