Every enterprise leader is chasing their first AI win - but almost nobody is asking what it costs to run that win at scale, every day, forever.

On this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, Red Hat Chief Product Officer, Ashesh Badani joins us a month removed from Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta to make the case that "token economics" isn't a buzzword - it's the next architectural decision CIOs can't afford to make too late.

Badani, who watched Sun Microsystems lose its biggest bet to the very open-source wave Red Hat later rode to the top, brings two decades of pattern recognition to a conversation that ranges from...

-- why Red Hat acquired Neural Magic and bet on vLLM for inference efficiency...

-- to the honest tradeoffs between proprietary frontier models and open infrastructure...

-- to the one question from a customer that still catches him off guard.

It's a rare, unscripted look at how the company that helped define open source for the last era is now trying to define what governable, economically sustainable AI looks like for this one - straight from the product chief writing the playbook.

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“If you build enough confidence that you say, 99% of the time, this is right - and you want to say, let's just have it go automatically - that's the goal. People will build that trust over time and you will become more autonomous...” -- Joel Beal, CEO & Co-Founder at Alloy.ai. Full podcast episode, "Autonomous Decisions at Scale: Making AI Work in the Real World"GET A DEMO of Supply Chain Planning Reimagined in action!: https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh

What happens when the autopilot turns on, and a supply chain planner can't explain why it made the call it just made? In this episode of Supply Chain Planning Reimagined – brought to you by The Enterprise Edge® in partnership with SAP - Xavier Duprat, VP of Supply Chain Planning at Cascades, and Joel Beal, CEO of Alloy AI, get brutally honest about where autonomous supply chain decisions actually stand today: not in a sandbox, but across 10 North American tissue paper plants, 10,000 retail store locations, and a freshly launched replenishment agent that went live the week of this recording.

They unpack…

• why "on-time and in full (OTIF)" is the wrong metric to optimize for

• how a single in-stock KPI nobody knew three years ago is now getting a standing ovation in monthly leadership reviews

• why 15% forecast accuracy improvements are table stakes compared to what agentic AI is about to unlock

• why the real architectural question isn't monolithic vs. multi-agent - it's whether your organization has built enough trust to let go of the wheel.

If you're a supply chain leader navigating the gap between proof-of-concept and production-scale autonomy, this conversation is your roadmap.

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Get a demo of Supply Chain Planning Reimagined in action: https://events.sap.com/tee-supply-chain-planning-reimagined/en_us/home.html