Enterprise architecture, AI, and the occasional TTRPG detour.
I'm Ted Tschopp, a Senior Enterprise Architect based in Los Angeles. I spend most of my time on enterprise-scale digital automation and the practical realities of adopting AI in large organizations: platform shape, guardrails, operating models, and the work between the work.
I like the edge where strategy meets execution and where ambitious technology has to survive contact with reality. Some of the things I have worked on were once science fiction. Now they are platform problems, governance problems, and people problems, which is to say: the interesting part.
"Architecture is the unnecessary design elements of a structure that make it livable and sustainable." -- Oscar Tschopp, my dad, who was an architect that built and designed buildings. I like to think of enterprise architecture as the unnecessary design elements of a system that make it useable, sustainable, and welcoming for the users and the builders.
Note: Unless explicitly stated otherwise, everything here is personal work and opinion, not speaking for my employer.
- Enterprise AI adoption: governance, risk, measurement, and how teams actually ship value
- Agentic systems: orchestration, observability, controls, and workflow redesign
- Architecture that survives contact with reality: platform thinking, integration patterns, and constraints that matter in the real world
- Storytelling: using narrative and metaphor to make complex systems understandable
- Creative tooling: TTRPG generators, SRDs, and hobby-grade experiments that occasionally become real tools
Most of the longer-form writing lives on TedT.org. Good entry points:
- Agents Don't Click: https://tedt.org/Agents-Dont-Click/
- When the Machines Don't Sleep: https://tedt.org/When-the-Machines-Dont-Sleep/
- From Guesswork to Geometry: How We Measured the Mind: https://tedt.org/From-Guesswork-to-Geometry-How-We-Measured-the-Mind/
- AI archive: https://tedt.org/category/ai/
- Location: Los Angeles
- Experience: 30+ years in IT, still learning
- Current learning: Rust, product strategy, and better DX tooling
- Fun fact: Founder of TheOneRing.com, featured in Wired and the LA Times
- Be explicit about the outcome and the constraints.
- Prefer small PRs with tight feedback loops.
- If we disagree, write down the assumptions and test them.
- Strong ideas should survive pressure.
