Van E. Eiseman

Van E. Eiseman is the author of The Mobile Era of Intent: Six Pillars for Intent-Driven AI and a leading analyst of why AI deployments fail in practice—not theory. With nearly 30 years of experience across healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and retail—including leadership shaped by U.S. Navy service—Van identified and named a structural shift reshaping how organizations approach AI deployment: technology is moving from responding to commands to interpreting human intent. His work focuses on a critical gap most organizations don’t realize they have: the absence of shared language for evaluating AI systems before deployment. Without that language, governance becomes performative, decision quality collapses under competitive pressure, and defaults harden into infrastruct...