453 - Make Approved AI Easier to Use w/ Mason Herbel
You've Been Heard, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Mason Herbel of Parallel Systems advises IT leaders to make approved AI tools easy and secure for employees to use.
Mason Herbel discusses moving from an AI startup to Parallel Systems, where governance and company data were the first AI questions.
He suggests enterprise plans, data-handling agreements and trial periods for requested tools, then reviewing actual usage, since blocking sites fails when employees can use personal phones.
He also covers choosing infrastructure workload by workload, including migrating an engineering firm off aging servers and proposing owned GPUs as API bills grew, without claiming verified savings.
Herbel shares how he won support for ideas, watched business workflows first and kept everyday IT covered.