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Patrick O'Connor

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 30, 2026
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Top 5K sites
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Patrick O'Connor

    The Contract Never Mentioned AI (opens the original)

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    Patrick O’Connor is Founder & CEO of Gatekeeper, helping teams manage contracts, suppliers and spend before things go wrong. A diagnostics supplier adds an AI assistant that flags patient symptoms. No change notice, no contract amendment. It runs on patient data for months. The compliance team finds out during an investigation into an unrelated complaint. I hear versions of this constantly. A customer relationship manager (CRM) supplier switches on call summarization, and the security report the

  2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Patrick O'Connor

    Pattern-Matchers Need Patterns: The AI Race In B2B SaaS (opens the original)

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    Patrick O'Connor is Founder & CEO of Gatekeeper, helping teams manage contracts, suppliers and spend before things go wrong. Earlier this year, a leading frontier AI model scored approximately 95% on the 2026 US Math Olympiad, then later scored less than 0.5% on a set of visual puzzles that 98% or higher of human panelists could solve. That gap can tell us a lot about how these systems work, including whether the AI you are about to buy will do what the demo promised. Prominent AI researcher And

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Patrick O'Connor

    Why Agentic AI Works For Some Companies And Fails For Others (opens the original)

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    Patrick O'Connor is Founder & CEO of Gatekeeper, helping teams manage contracts, suppliers and spend before things go wrong. Over the past few years working with procurement, legal and finance teams, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat. A company invests heavily in AI, points it at its data and then is dissatisfied when the results are shallow or, worse, wrong. ​ The numbers now back up what I’ve been seeing. McKinsey’s April 2026 research on agentic AI found that “nearly two-thirds of enterpri

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