In a recent episode of The Building Texas Show, Perry Robinson, CEO of RocketDocs, addressed a critical disconnect in enterprise AI adoption: approximately 80% of corporate boards are pushing their companies to adopt AI, yet only about 20% of those companies actually trust the tools enough to deploy them. The episode, titled "Why 80% of Companies Don't Trust AI (And They're Right)," published June 6, 2026, features a conversation between host Justin McKenzie and Robinson, who explains why this gap is widening and how regulated industries are responding.
Robinson, who joined the 30-year-old RocketDocs three years ago, frames the company's philosophy with a single line: "Policy is a promise, architecture is a guarantee." He warns that contractual language alone cannot protect corporate intellectual property once employees start routing sensitive data through public AI models. The risks of 'shadow AI' are significant when employees paste proprietary data into free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. As Robinson notes, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product," reminding enterprises that free tiers of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google products often train on user data, potentially exposing competitive advantages.
The discussion also covers Atlassian's recent policy shift on training customer Jira and Confluence data, which signals a broader trend for SaaS vendors. Robinson highlights the EU AI Act, coming into force this summer, which introduces revenue-based fines for non-compliance, adding regulatory urgency to the trust gap. Salesforce's headless data moves reflect mounting pressure to feed AI pipelines, as companies seek secure ways to leverage their data.
RocketDocs' Luma platform is presented as a solution, offering a secure generative AI layer that runs entirely on a customer's own knowledge base inside their VPC, audited against ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 standards. Robinson describes Luma as deliberately "limited on purpose," refusing to crawl the open internet so that answers stay grounded in approved, subject-matter-expert-signed content. The platform also includes a new secure file transfer capability built for defense, law enforcement, and product launch scenarios where large, sensitive files cannot move by email.
Buyers of AI solutions increasingly include AI governance committees, chief compliance officers, and general counsel negotiating AI addenda. For business leaders, the key takeaway is that trust in AI requires architectural guarantees, not just policies. The episode is available now wherever podcasts are heard, and on YouTube alongside sponsor Chisos Boots. The Building Texas Show, hosted by Justin McKenzie, travels the state spotlighting the founders, operators, and executives shaping the Texas economy.
