For leaders and teams
AI Practice & Adoption
Clarify the opportunities, kill the vague hype, and turn Copilot, agents, and workflow automation into a practical adoption path.
Leave with: priority map, pilot shape, and internal story.
Magazine grid · thin rules · restrained type
Adam Rappaport / Mentis / Enterprise AI tech wizard
I make AI feel like magic, then make it work on Monday.
I help leaders, teams, and builders move from AI theatre to shipped capability: clearer strategy, sharper workflows, working agents, better demos, and the confidence to actually use the stuff.
Product Manager at Data#3GAI Insights cofounderNational and International SpeakerHands-on agent and app builder
AI adoption strategy
Build sprints
Team workshops
Speaking
/mentis/operator-console
$ mentis.audit('where AI is stuck')
$ mentis.ship({ strategy, agents, adoption })
=> outcome: capability people actually use
Enterprise AI
Data#3
Research signal
GAI Insights
Builder school
Vibe Academy
Stage presence
JuiceIT & GAI World Annual Conferences
Pedigree
Three rooms, one throughline.
Enterprise practice by day, market research by night, and the next builders on the side — three vantage points on the same question: how AI actually gets useful.
Enterprise AI
Data#3
Product Manager — Building the AI Practice
Standing up an AI practice across the Microsoft ecosystem — Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Power Platform, security, adoption, and the human reality between them.
- Enterprise adoption
- Microsoft AI
- Practice building
AI Research
GAI Insights
Cofounder & Research Analyst
Translating daily AI news, buyer guides, and vendor shifts into signal leaders can act on — Daily News Briefings, the annual GAI World conference, and the weekly Learning Lab.
- Market analysis
- Buyer guides
- Executive signal
Builder Education
Vibe Academy
Founder
Turning field experience into training that makes builders braver, sharper, and more useful inside real organisations. Learn by doing, not watching.
- Builder training
- Live critique
- Shipped proof
Adam + Mentis
human trust, wizard spark
Mentis mode
The handle stayed because it names the useful bit: curiosity, pattern-sense, builder energy, and enough theatrical spark to make serious work memorable.
The through-line
The work is half spellcraft, half systems thinking.
I am Adam Rappaport, also known as Mentis online. I have spent years around enterprise customers, cloud platforms, security, analytics, customer success, and now the practical frontier of AI adoption.
My sweet spot is helping people become bolder and clearer at the same time: leaders who need credible AI direction, teams who need workflows that survive contact with reality, and builders who want to level up fast.
Translate messy ambition into buildable AI work
Help teams see what to adopt, what to ignore, and what to prototype
Make technical work feel human enough to spread
Keep the Mentis magic without losing executive trust
Ways to work together
Pick the portal. I will bring the spellbook and the wiring.
If the question is AI strategy, capability, prototypes, adoption, or making your team feel brave enough to build, there is a useful first conversation here.
For founders and operators
Build Sprint
Take the messy idea, rough workflow, or half-built demo and turn it into a working artifact people can react to.
Leave with: prototype, next build loop, and sharper product logic.
For events and capability programs
Workshops & Speaking
Bring an operator-builder voice into the room: grounded enough for executives, playful enough to wake people up.
Leave with: energy, examples, and practical confidence.
You want useful AI, not theatre
You can tolerate fast prototypes
You value judgement as much as tools
You want the team to actually adopt it
Unsure which one you need? Bring the mess. That is usually enough.
Why people listen
I bridge the awkward gap between executive ambition and working systems.
The best AI work needs someone who can read the boardroom, inspect the workflow, build the demo, challenge the output, and teach the team what changed. Data#3 is the day job. GAI Insights is the night signal. The side quests are where the hands stay sharp.
20+ yrs
enterprise adoption of emerging technologies (dot com, cloud, cybersecurity, AI)
3 shifts
Data#3 by day, GAI Insights by night, tech wizard all the time
1 bias
ship something useful before the hype cools
I understand the enterprise room.
Currently helping stand up AI practice across the Microsoft ecosystem: Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Power Platform, security, adoption, and the human reality between them.
Enterprise adoptionMicrosoft AIPractice building
I know where the market is moving.
Cofounder and research analyst translating daily AI news, buyer guides, vendor shifts, and executive conversations into signal leaders can actually act on.
Market analysisBuyer guidesExecutive signal
I build the side quests too.
Mobile games, event activations, editors, workflow tools, AI art showcases, and training systems. The pattern is simple: curiosity becomes a working artifact.
GamesActivationsWorkflow tools
I can teach it without making it boring.
Turning field experience into training that makes builders braver, more discerning, and more useful inside real organisations.
Builder trainingLive critiqueShipped proof
Side quests
The extra proof that the wizard hat is not decorative.
These are the projects that happen above and beyond the formal roles: small enough to move fast, real enough to prove taste, judgement, and shipping muscle.
Mobile games
01Playful systems for testing physics, loops, performance, and mobile feel.
Event activations
02Conference-ready experiences that turn attention into participation.
GAI World SuperheroesEnter the Ring TriviaTech Memory Match
Builder tools
03Useful interfaces for turning messy work into something repeatable.
Shipped proof
I am not theorising from the balcony. I build the weird stuff.
The work is deliberately broad: AR field tools, browser agents, AI content systems, games, demos, and workflow engines. Range is the point. It means I can find the useful pattern faster.
artifact 01
Live toolCone Compass
WebAR app for laying out Ultimate Frisbee fields with GPS precision and AR overlays.
Proof that AI-era builders can fuse physical-world pain with spatial interfaces.
Next.jsAR.jsGPSThree.js
artifact 02
Live PWAtabitomo
A Japanese travel companion PWA: phrasebook, live voice translation, and on-trip guidance for getting around Japan.
A real trip stress-tested into a pocket tool: language, voice, and place in one PWA.
Next.jsGeminiOpenAI RealtimePWA
artifact 03
Birb LabsBirb Labs
A playful web-native game lab for flight, physics, motion, and small-screen feel.
A clean doorway into the Birb Labs experiments: games, toys, motion studies, and tactile mobile ideas.
Three.jsJavaScriptWebGLMobile UX
artifact 04
Media labReRoll Reel
AI video generation and remixing platform with intelligent editing workflows.
A media workflow experiment for remixing and AI-assisted iteration.
Next.jsDrizzle ORMAI APIs
Productized
The best builds don't stay private. They become products.
Each of these started as a real problem I had to solve, then got lifted one level up into something anyone with the same problem can use. Live, usable, and shipped — not slideware.
Explore all productsDiamond Eye
Vision that watches your niche.
Watches new listings in your collecting niche, reads the photos — not just the titles — and flags the underpriced, mis-identified, and quietly collectible pieces everyone else scrolled past.
OpenHomecourt
Walk in already understanding their world.
Hand it the job ad and your CV. It researches the employer, finds the real problem behind the role, maps your experience to it, and builds a personal interview war room.
OpenThroughline
See the narrative, not the noise.
Watches the outlets that push a narrative, classifies each story by the talking point it echoes, and shows the framing side by side — day by day. It tracks content, never people.
OpenVibe Academy
AI powers, not AI opinions.
The dojo where the tech-wizard side becomes teachable: live building, the operator loop, real tools, and portable proof of what you can actually do.
OpenResearch signal
I watch the AI wave closely enough to know which ripples matter.
Useful AI judgement comes from pattern recognition: what buyers ask for, what vendors promise, what actually works, and what builders discover when the demo meets reality.
Enterprise buyer guides
Daily AI News signal
GAI World conversations
Field notes from adoption work
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Vibe Academy
The dojo for people who want AI powers, not AI opinions.
Vibe Academy is where the tech-wizard side becomes teachable: live building, critique, tools, judgement, and enough mischief to make the work stick.
01
Build the artifact
No passive content treadmill. Every sprint points toward something visible, testable, and explainable.
02
Learn the operator loop
Brief the model, inspect the output, improve the workflow, recover from weirdness, and know when to trust your own judgement.
03
Make proof portable
The work should help you in public, in interviews, in your team, and in the room where people ask what you can actually do.
04
Keep the magic alive
The best builders stay playful without getting sloppy. The Academy keeps both parts switched on.
Work with Adam
Bring the stuck thing. We will make it move.
A good first conversation should feel useful before it becomes commercial. Bring the ambition, the messy workflow, the team question, or the half-formed artifact — I'll help you find the highest-leverage next move.
You need a practical AI strategy that survives real teams
You want an agent, workflow, demo, or prototype built fast
You need a speaker, trainer, or sharp AI sparring partner
Reach me directly
The fastest way in is a direct message — say what's stuck and we'll take it from there.
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