In a recent episode of The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie sat down with Perry Robinson, CEO of RocketDocs, to explore a critical disconnect in enterprise technology: while approximately 80% of corporate boards are urging AI adoption, only about 20% of companies trust the tools enough to implement them. The episode, titled "Why 80% of Companies Don't Trust AI (And They're Right)," published June 6, 2026, highlights the widening gap and how regulated industries are responding.
Robinson, who joined the 30-year-old RocketDocs three years ago, framed the company's philosophy with a succinct statement: "Policy is a promise, architecture is a guarantee." He warned that contractual language alone cannot protect corporate intellectual property once employees start routing sensitive data through public models. The discussion emphasized the risks of 'shadow AI,' where employees paste proprietary data into free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, potentially exposing confidential information to third-party vendors.
The conversation also touched on the EU AI Act, set to come into force this summer, which introduces revenue-based fines for non-compliance. Robinson noted that buyers increasingly include AI governance committees, chief compliance officers, and general counsel negotiating AI addenda. He highlighted RocketDocs' Luma platform, a secure generative AI layer designed to run entirely on a customer's own knowledge base within their VPC, audited against ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 standards. Luma is deliberately "limited on purpose," refusing to crawl the open internet to ensure answers stay grounded in approved, subject-matter-expert-signed content.
Robinson also detailed a new secure file transfer capability built for defense, law enforcement, and product launch scenarios where large, sensitive files cannot move by email. The episode delved into broader trends, including Atlassian's recent policy shift on training customer Jira and Confluence data, and Salesforce's headless data moves reflecting mounting pressure to feed AI pipelines. As Robinson put it, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product," a reminder that free tiers of AI tools often serve as training grounds for the very vendors enterprises compete against.
The episode is available on YouTube and wherever podcasts are heard, sponsored by Chisos Boots. The Building Texas Show, hosted by Justin McKenzie, travels the state spotlighting founders, operators, and executives shaping the Texas economy, delivering candid conversations on entrepreneurship, technology, and leadership.
