RPT Innovation

Bob Thorson

Enterprise Transformation & AI Strategy

I don't just advise transformations—I lead them. 15+ years as an operator: interim CIO, Chief Transformation Officer, and hands-on program leader across financial services, federal, and technology sectors. Recent work includes a $20B platform migration and standing up AI governance for a national wealth management firm. I go in, I fix it, I build the team to sustain it.

Dashboard

On My Radar

27 Jan

DeepSeek-R1: Open weights just changed the ROI calculation for private enterprise models.

24 Jan

NVIDIA Blackwell: Implications for on-prem inference costs.

18 Jan

Agentic Workflows: Why 2026 is the year of the enterprise agent.

Engagements
  • Interim CIO / CTO / CDO
  • Transformation Office Setup
  • AI Strategy Sprints (2-4 wks)
  • Change & Org Design
Stay Sharp

The Lab

Active

Personal AI Research Assistant

Building a RAG pipeline over my own notes, articles, and bookmarks. Testing what "personal knowledge management" looks like when AI can actually search it.

Learned: Chunking strategy matters more than model choice.

Exploring

Voice-to-CRM Prototype

Can I dictate meeting notes and have an agent extract action items, update contacts, and draft follow-ups? Testing with Whisper + Claude.

Learned: The hard part is knowing when NOT to automate.

Paused

Local LLM Benchmarking

Running Llama, Mistral, and Phi variants on a Mac Studio to understand where "good enough" lives for common enterprise tasks.

Learned: Quantization is the real game. 4-bit models surprise you.

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