Dan Mercede

Dan Mercede

AI Systems Architect - Governed Agent Runtimes, MCP, and AI Control Planes

San Diego, California, United States

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Dan Mercede is a founder and AI systems architect focused on governed agent runtimes, MCP/tool governance, AI risk controls, retrieval systems, and production AI control planes.

His work centers on a practical production question: how do you let AI agents do useful work without giving them uncontrolled mutation authority? Dan builds execution environments where authority is evaluated at action time, ambiguous state fails closed, material actions produce auditable receipts, and behavior is constrained across time.

His public proof artifacts include mcp-context-budget, a local-first MCP context budget and tool-selection verifier for agentic coding environments; schemafit, a provider-aware structured-output and JSON-Schema CI linter for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, and Cohere; and failclosed, a Python merge-admission gate for AI-written code. His talks focus on MCP/tool governance, structured-output reliability, agent authority, adversarial code review, event-log patterns for agent state, and the boundary between advisory AI and enforceable controls.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Finance & Banking
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Transformations
  • AI for Startups
  • Generative & Agentic AI
  • AI Governance
  • Enterprise AI Architecture
  • AI Agent Systems
  • RAG
  • GraphRAG
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM Applications
  • AI Agentic Workflows
  • AI Orchestration
  • AI Engineering
  • AI Code Generation
  • AI Cloud
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architecture
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • AI Foundry
  • MCP and GraphQL for AI Systems
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Enterprise AI
  • Enterprise AI Governance
  • AI Agents
  • Generative AI Use Cases
  • AI Builder
  • Azure AI Foundry

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Dan Mercede

AI Systems Architect - Governed Agent Runtimes, MCP, and AI Control Planes

San Diego, California, United States

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