Ankit Anand

Ankit Anand is an Managing Consultant and enterprise data management architect with 17 years of experience, the inventor of 4 pending U.S. patent addressing working memory gaps in AI architectures & Neuro Symbolic Data Management, and a current Chief Data and AI Officer candidate at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is OnCon Top 100 Data Analytics Professional for 20206. He is the author of the book “The Deployed Data Scientist: MLOps and Analytics in Practice.”

Context and compliance — CleoPtolemy made with Midjourney

Long-running AI agents quietly drop compliance rules, and bigger context windows won't fix it

Imagine deploying an AI agent to run a multi-day master data validation workflow. By day three, it has ingested thousands of records. The baseline governance rules you hardcoded into the system prompt at the start? They are gone. Pushed right out of active memory.

Ankit Anand

September 13, 2026