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.NET AI Architecture for DevOps provides strategies and design patterns to enhance software development and deployment with AI integration. AI‑driven development is transforming how .NET engineers deliver software. Instead of envisioning a fully autonomous future, this webinar presents a practical, near‑term model: enabling a skilled engineer to compress a month of feature work into a single day through AI‑Driven Development. Jeffrey Palermo introduces an approach that pairs clear architectural decisions with high‑leverage automation and modern AI coding tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude. Attendees will learn how to design AI‑ready DevOps environment, use parallelized local and cloud runners, and guide LLMs to generate code, tests, and supporting artifacts with confidence and consistency. Implementing .NET AI Architecture for DevOps ensures consistent testing, scalable pipelines, and effective AI integration. The session covers how to structure a repeatable workflow for rapidly delivering production‑quality features—achieving 10× throughput without sacrificing quality or control.

Brad Clancy, Vice President of Sales

Clear Measure has appointed Brad Clancy as Vice President of Sales, adding an experienced sales leader to support the company’s continued growth. 

About Brad Clancy

Brad brings extensive sales leadership and business development experience from firms including Accenture, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, and Cognizant. Across these organizations, he focused on opening new logo accounts while expanding buying centers within existing install base accounts.  He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an Executive MBA from Michigan State University, and a Master of Science in Leadership from Capella University. He has also studied strategy through executive education programs at both Harvard and Wharton. Brad lives in Troy, Michigan, with his wife and golden retriever, enjoys spending time with his son and daughter, reading, and playing the trombone. 

Role at Clear Measure

In his role as Vice President of Sales, Brad will lead Clear Measure’s sales efforts, working closely with clients and internal teams to strengthen partnerships and support long-term growth. His approach emphasizes customer service, responsiveness, and consistently putting the needs of Clear Measure’s clients and prospects first. 
“As a collaborative and inspirational leader, Brad combines his deep business acumen with industry strategy and technical expertise to empower teams and help others achieve their highest potential,” said N. Hansen, Fractional CIO and Globally Trusted Strategic Advisor, BizLogic LLC.    Steve Hickman, CEO of Clear Measure, said, “Brad brings a sales background rooted in large enterprise accounts, which aligns well with the market Clear Measure is targeting. His experience with major account buying processes, competitive differentiation, and enterprise sales strategy will be a strong asset as we continue to grow.”    “I am very excited to join Clear Measure for its unparalleled thought leadership in continually driving and bringing to our clients the latest best practices in custom software development and delivering a clear and measurable difference in resultant business outcomes,” said Brad. “I am also very thrilled to join this uniquely warm and highly collaborative culture.” 

About Clear Measure

Clear Measure is a full-service software architecture and engineering firm serving organizations using .NET and Azure. The company builds mission-critical custom software, rescues in-progress projects, and stabilizes systems that are not performing as expected.  Clear Measure’s work is guided by five pillars: create clarity, establish quality, achieve stability, increase speed, and optimize the team. Services include custom software development, upgrade and migration initiatives, project rescue and jumpstart efforts, fractional leadership, and software audits. Through this approach, Clear Measure empowers teams to move fast, build smart, upgrade skills, and achieve successful software project outcomes.  With Brad Clancy joining the team, Clear Measure continues to build on its commitment to strong client partnerships and long-term growth.     Reach out to Brad directly at brad.clancy@clear-meausure.com   
Many pundits compare AI to a junior developer on your team. This is false. AI is code that runs on a computer and cannot operate fully by itself. It must be operated like any other sophisticated machine. However, it is a very sophisticated machine capable of building software features if the development environment is well-designed and complete. This webinar will demonstrate the ability to fully delegate a software feature to an unmonitored AI tool. When an engineer reviews the output, it will be a fully developed feature that meets the team's standards, including all automated tests, and a complete pull request ready for review. Move into the future with us, where you can delegate the development of easy features and changes entirely to the computer, allowing your engineers to focus on new, novel, or difficult features.
AI-driven development isn’t about replacing engineers—it’s about amplifying their effectiveness. By letting computers generate significant portions of code, projects can move at the pace of your ideas while using fewer manual hours. Work that would take an average developer two weeks of coding can be reduced to a single day with AI-driven development. This shift allows teams to deliver features quickly and with fewer people—creating better economics than traditional offshore development while avoiding communication gaps or delays.    To make that speed count, teams need to create clarity—clear goals, shared priorities, and a visible path. When everyone knows what’s being built, why it matters, and how success is measured, AI becomes a real accelerator instead of just a code generator.    This combination of AI-driven development and clarity allows teams to deliver features faster, reduce rework, and maintain high quality.  AI at Work in Software Builds  When specifications, UX details, technical design, and test plans are clear, AI tools can produce large portions of functionality in seconds. Engineers then refine and validate that output, ensuring the resulting software matches your standards and integrates cleanly into your systems.    Creating clarity early in these steps reduces confusion and rework later. By structuring work into well-defined stages—concept, design, implementation, validation, release—teams ensure AI is applied where progress stands and where AI fits best.    Unlocking New Economics  Organizations often think that outsourcing offshore is the only way to save on development costs. AI-driven development offers a different path—enabling teams to produce code faster, streamline processes, and reduce expenses, while maintaining high quality and reliable outcomes.    Smaller, well-scoped projects make that advantage even stronger. When the team understands the purpose and outcomes, AI-accelerated work stays focused, predictable, and aligned with business goals.    Features, Delivered Sooner  This planned approach accelerates delivery while freeing developers to focus on high-value work: defining the right features, improving user experience, and strengthening overall design.  Measuring what matters—quality, stability, speed, and outcomes—keeps everyone on the same page and builds trust. With clear metrics, AI-driven development doesn’t just move faster; it moves smarter.    Key Takeaways 
  • AI-assisted coding accelerates development cycles. 
  • Tasks that once took two weeks can now be completed in a single day. 
  • Projects can be delivered with fewer people, improving cost efficiency. 
  • Early detection and refinement minimize rework. 
  • Faster builds unlock innovative, intelligent features for your software. 
In this episode, Jeffrey Palermo joined Dan Clarke to discuss AI-driven development and DevOps, exploring how AI is changing software and the importance of implementing DevOps processes before AI can begin to leverage writing features in a reliable and consistent way. Tune in to learn more!
Software engineering is at an inflection point. Some pundits claim that all programming will be done by AI in the future, while others claim that it’s all hype. We will find the reality somewhere in the middle. This webinar dives into what is possible now with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 regarding AI-Driven Development.

AI-Driven Development is changing how software teams think about designing, building, and delivering applications. By embedding AI into the development process, teams can move faster, reduce repetitive work, and make better architectural decisions, creating software that is maintainable and reliable. AI is not about replacing intelligence; it is automation that helps us move faster, not think for us.

The Role of AI in Modern Software Development
AI takes on repetitive or time-consuming tasks such as generating code patterns, refactoring, or analyzing code for potential issues. It does not make people smarter; it helps experienced teams move faster and stay focused on higher-level architecture and design decisions. When developers know what they are doing, AI accelerates their work. When they do not, it exposes gaps. The value comes from speed and consistency, not from intelligence.

Architecture Meets AI
Strong software architecture remains essential for scalable and maintainable applications. AI-driven development works alongside architectural best practices by:

Improving scalability and performance: By analyzing code and dependencies, AI helps identify slow areas and improve system design.
Enhancing collaboration: Developers, testers, and architects can use AI outputs to stay aligned with architecture and implementation strategies.

AI processes what is given to it and performs pattern matching, not reasoning. Integrating it into architecture-focused workflows results in faster builds and cleaner designs, but the intelligence still comes from the people using it.

Practical Benefits of AI-Driven Development
Teams see clear advantages from AI-driven development:

Faster coding and iteration: AI automates repetitive coding work so teams can focus on architecture.
Proactive problem detection: Pattern analysis identifies issues early, reducing rework.
Better code quality: Consistent, AI-assisted reviews help keep systems clean and maintainable.

Unlocking the Future of Software Delivery
AI-driven development is not a trend; it is a practical evolution in how software is built. There is no real intelligence here; it is automation that speeds up what skilled teams already know how to do. Combining AI with solid architectural practices enables organizations to deliver faster, more reliable software without the hype, focusing on accurate and efficient execution grounded in expertise.

DevOps Optimization Leads to Tech Debt Reduction

Our client supports educators and administrators as they navigate the complexities of Medicaid. Their development team needed a more reliable, scalable, and secure environment to deliver software solutions efficiently. Over time, inconsistent development processes, technical debt, and performance bottlenecks limited their ability to meet growing demands.

Clear Measure conducted a comprehensive review across infrastructure, source control, and database management to identify opportunities for improvement and areas of vulnerability. Working closely with the client’s internal team, we implemented recommendations to strengthen continuous integration, deployment pipelines, and automation.

The result was a standardized DevOps environment with independent, consistent deployments and faster, more reliable delivery processes. The client’s internal team now operates confidently and independently in a secure, stable, and scalable environment—supporting long-term efficiency, reliability, and future growth.

 
Why do so many software projects go off track? This video reveals the three key elements that set successful projects apart: the solution, the project, and the team—all before execution begins.

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