Podcast

ContextOps

The discipline enterprise AI has been missing.

For two years, enterprise AI teams have been chasing the same fix. Better prompts. Bigger context windows. Smarter models. The agents keep failing in the same ways.

Nobody's asking the harder question: who owns the knowledge those agents run on?

ContextOps is a discipline and a podcast built around that question. First-principles thinking about how enterprises assemble, govern, and audit the context that powers their agents, not inference speed or benchmark chasing.

The gap has a name now. The work begins.

First episode: May 2026
01 — The Show

The Show

A fortnightly conversation hosted by Vivek Khandelwal and Dilip Ittyera, occasionally joined by practitioners, researchers, and operators thinking seriously about this problem. No panels, no slide decks, no "AI is transforming everything" takes. Just the discipline, built episode by episode.

02 — Why Now

Every generation gets its ops function.

DevOps
~2008
DataOps
~2015
MLOps
~2018
ContextOps
202?
We are here now

DevOps, DataOps, MLOps. Each promoted a function from afterthought to infrastructure. ContextOps is next. The gap is named. The discipline is forming.

03 — The Problem

Why AI keeps failing the same way

One person wrote the prompts. Someone else sourced the documents. A third team loaded them into the pipeline. The developer building the agent assumed the context was clean. Nobody checked. When the agent failed, everyone blamed the model.

Prompt Engineer
Content Team
Data Team
Developer
Agent
Wrong answer
Blame →Model

Assembled by many hands. Owned by none.

04 — The Discipline

What ContextOps actually is

ContextOps operationalizes knowledge for AI. It's the loop that turns documents, SOPs, and policies into something an agent can reason over: reliably, traceably, and without contradiction. Ingest. Validate. Structure. Serve. Audit. Refine. Knowledge flows in. Feedback flows back.

ContextOps Loop
Ingest
Validate
Structure
Serve
Audit
Refine

ContextOps operationalizes knowledge for AI.

05 — The Hosts

Vivek Khandelwal

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, CogniSwitch

Two years watching enterprises blame the model. Built a company around the actual problem.

Dilip Ittyera

Co-Founder & CEO, CogniSwitch

Symbolic AI practitioner. Has been building governed knowledge systems before the industry had a name for it.

The discipline is forming.

Be among the first to follow it.

ContextOps
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