Writing

Laurent Groult has been publishing on why AI fails inside content systems, and what has to be true for it to work. The thinking underneath Pilot.

Digital Asset Management News · February 10, 2026

How AI Exposes DAM's Ownership Illusion

The simple story of who owns an asset, a creator field and some metadata, falls apart once work arrives from many sources at once. AI did not break digital asset ownership, it revealed a crack that was already there.

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Digital Asset Management News · February 3, 2026

On AI Hallucinations

When AI invents an answer, the instinct is to blame the model. The argument here is that hallucination is an information governance problem: the system was fed material with no clear authority behind it.

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Digital Asset Management News · January 13, 2026

The Hidden Architecture Problem Behind AI's Struggles in DAM

AI behaves inconsistently in asset systems because of how those systems are built, not because the algorithms are immature. Fix the architecture and the same AI starts behaving.

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Digital Asset Management News · December 11, 2025

The Quiet Professionals Who Hold the Key to AI Success

The people who spent decades organizing information turn out to hold what enterprise AI needs most. When the output is unreliable, the cause is almost never the model. It is the structure of what you fed it.

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The framework that connects them

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The Tripod Theory: How Structure, Authority, and Intent Make AI Work

Three forces hold up any system that automation touches: structure, authority, and intent. Remove one leg and it collapses no matter how strong the other two look.

"AI did not change the rules. It removed the safety net."
Laurent Groult, The Tripod Theory: How Structure, Authority, and Intent Make AI Work
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This is not theory we borrowed. It is the reason Pilot is built the way it is: one place, one client record every part reads, and work that carries its purpose from the first call to your books.