# AI in Retail public discovery Version: 1 Real enterprise AI, documented as it happens. A journal of real enterprise AI projects, with the costs, failures and reversals left in. Every page is static HTML. Written by Simon Edwards. ## Discovery surfaces - [RSS feed](https://aiinretail.com/rss.xml): articles, field notes and decisions, newest first - [llms.txt](https://aiinretail.com/llms.txt): short operator hint - [sitemap.xml](https://aiinretail.com/sitemap-index.xml): XML sitemap for crawlers - [sitemap.md](https://aiinretail.com/sitemap.md): this file ## Sections - [Projects](https://aiinretail.com/projects/): one hub per project with timeline, milestones, decisions, field notes, lessons, failures, costs and promotion log - [Journal](https://aiinretail.com/journal/): experiments, reviews, opinion and field notes across projects - [Architecture](https://aiinretail.com/architecture/), [Governance](https://aiinretail.com/governance/), [Costs](https://aiinretail.com/costs/), [Resources](https://aiinretail.com/resources/) ## Content types - project: the hub page, with hypothesis, phase and milestones - article: a long-form Part, review or opinion piece with an executive summary - field-note: one moment, written the day it happened; three paragraphs - adr: an architecture decision record, append-only, with supersession and reversal tracked - role: a role card for one member of a digital workforce, with its promotion history - lessons and cost: one file per project, curated and computed respectively ## Digital workforce for an enterprise security team (project) - [Overview](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/) (project), status active, phase spark - [Timeline](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/timeline/) (hub page) - [Milestones](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/milestones/) (hub page) - [Decisions](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/decisions/) (hub page) - [Field notes](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/field-notes/) (hub page) - [Lessons](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/lessons/) (hub page) - [Failures](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/failures/) (hub page) - [Costs](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/costs/) (hub page) - [Promotion log](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/promotion-log/) (hub page) - [Standing up the site before Part 1](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-01-standing-up-the-site/) (field-note, 2026-10-01) - [ADR-0001: Why this project, why Foundry](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/decisions/adr-0001/) (adr, proposed) - [ADR-0002: Anonymisation standard for real alert data](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/decisions/adr-0002/) (adr, proposed) - [Blue Team](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/roles/blue-team/) (role, skill) - [Cybersecurity Director](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/roles/director/) (role, skill) - [Purple Team](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/roles/purple-team/) (role, skill) - [Red Team](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/roles/red-team/) (role, skill) - [Security Analyst](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/roles/security-analyst/) (role, skill) - [Lessons](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/lessons/) (lessons) - [Costs](https://aiinretail.com/projects/cybersecurity-digital-workforce/costs/) (cost) ## Digital workforce as a company's operating team (project) - [Overview](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/) (project), status active, phase build-v1 - [Timeline](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/timeline/) (hub page) - [Milestones](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/milestones/) (hub page) - [Decisions](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/decisions/) (hub page) - [Field notes](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/field-notes/) (hub page) - [Lessons](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/lessons/) (hub page) - [Failures](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/failures/) (hub page) - [Costs](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/costs/) (hub page) - [Promotion log](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/promotion-log/) (hub page) - [The question that found two doors](https://aiinretail.com/journal/experiments/the-question-that-found-two-doors/) (article, 2026-10-11) - [Double opt-in was single behind scanners](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-11-double-opt-in-was-single-behind-scanners/) (field-note, 2026-10-11) - [First run of the setup skill, on the whole company](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-11-first-run-on-the-whole-company/) (field-note, 2026-10-11) - [The journal learns to write itself](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-11-the-journal-learns-to-write-itself/) (field-note, 2026-10-11) - [The threat model found the unlocked door](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-11-the-model-found-the-unlocked-door/) (field-note, 2026-10-11) - [The reviewer becomes a pack](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-11-the-reviewer-becomes-a-pack/) (field-note, 2026-10-11) - [First review found a real hole](https://aiinretail.com/journal/field-notes/2026-10-10-first-review-found-a-real-hole/) (field-note, 2026-10-10) - [ADR-0001: Role agents live in the company repository, not in a platform](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/decisions/adr-0001/) (adr, accepted) - [ADR-0002: The security reviewer is published as an open-source skills pack](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/decisions/adr-0002/) (adr, accepted) - [Chief of Staff](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/chief-of-staff/) (role, agent) - [Marketing](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/marketing/) (role, agent) - [Product Manager](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/product-manager/) (role, agent) - [Release Engineer](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/release-engineer/) (role, agent) - [Sales and Customer Success](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/sales-cs/) (role, agent) - [Security Reviewer](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/roles/security-reviewer/) (role, agent) - [Lessons](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/lessons/) (lessons) - [Costs](https://aiinretail.com/projects/digital-workforce-operating-team/costs/) (cost) ## Usage ```bash curl -s https://aiinretail.com/llms.txt curl -s https://aiinretail.com/sitemap.md curl -s https://aiinretail.com/rss.xml ``` Citing: link to the page, name the site and the author, and quote the dated entry rather than paraphrasing a number without its date. Entries are append-only; corrections are dated addenda on the original page.