San Antonio, TX — A new episode of The Building Texas Show reveals a stark disconnect in enterprise AI adoption: while roughly 80% of boards are pushing their companies to adopt artificial intelligence, 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 Perry Robinson, CEO of RocketDocs.
Robinson, who joined the 30-year-old RocketDocs three years ago, explained that the trust gap is widening due to risks like 'shadow AI,' where employees paste proprietary data into free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product," Robinson warned, noting that free tiers often train the very vendors enterprises compete against. He emphasized that "policy is a promise, architecture is a guarantee," arguing contractual language alone cannot protect corporate IP once sensitive data enters public models.
The discussion also covered how regulated industries—life sciences, healthcare, insurance, and financial services—are responding. Robinson detailed RocketDocs' Luma platform, 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. Luma is "deliberately limited on purpose," refusing to crawl the open internet to ensure answers stay grounded in approved, subject-matter-expert-signed content. A new secure file transfer capability was also unveiled for defense, law enforcement, and product launch scenarios where large, sensitive files cannot move by email.
Robinson and McKenzie touched on broader industry shifts, including Atlassian's recent policy shift on training customer Jira and Confluence data, and what it signals for SaaS vendors. They also discussed the EU AI Act, coming into force this summer, which introduces revenue-based fines for non-compliance. Salesforce's headless data moves were cited as reflecting mounting pressure to feed AI pipelines, while buyers increasingly include AI governance committees, chief compliance officers, and general counsel negotiating AI addenda.
The episode highlights that the implications of this trust gap are profound. Without reliable safeguards, enterprises risk data leaks, regulatory penalties, and loss of competitive advantage. Robinson's message underscores that for AI to deliver on its promise, companies must prioritize architectural guarantees over mere policy promises. The Building Texas Show, hosted by Justin McKenzie, travels the state spotlighting founders, operators, and executives shaping the Texas economy. The episode is available now wherever podcasts are heard, and on YouTube alongside sponsor Chisos Boots.
