# Dr\. Joshua Read: Faith\-Tech Product Leadership Consulting

> In the pursuit of my doctorate of strategic leadership and ultimately my pursuit of learning to be a leader, I started this website as a searchable resource for myself \- a journal of gems that I am learning or have learned\.

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## Pages
- [Strategic Leadership](https://drjoshuaread.com/strategic-leadership/)
- [Work With Me: Faith\-Tech Product Consulting](https://drjoshuaread.com/work-with-me/): I consult with faith\-tech product leaders, ministry executives, and church tech teams on AI strategy, product roadmap, and mission\-aligned governance\.
- [About Joshua Read — Faith\-Tech Product Leadership Consultant](https://drjoshuaread.com/)
- [Contact](https://drjoshuaread.com/contact/)
- [Blog](https://drjoshuaread.com/blog/)

## Posts
- [The Token Cost Drop That Only Appeared After We Added the Knowledge Graph](https://drjoshuaread.com/token-cost-drop-after-knowledge-graph/): Inference costs fell from $1,240 to $645 for the same planning volume once the graph held the real three\-step handoff the team already trusted, not a vendor's clean ontology\. The A/B test that proved the extra modeling work was worth it\.
- [The PM Who Just Shipped an Agent and Now Needs an Evaluation Layer](https://drjoshuaread.com/pm-shipped-agent-now-needs-evaluation-layer/): The agent's first failures were judgment errors, not hallucinations: it optimized each request without the historical friction experienced coordinators carry in their heads\. The hybrid rule\-plus\-model split, and the one rule to enforce before an agent touches shared state\.
- [The Custom Agent We Had to Build After Off\-the\-Shelf Tools Hit Ministry Data Limits](https://drjoshuaread.com/custom-agent-off-the-shelf-tools-hit-ministry-data-limits/): Off\-the\-shelf agents hit a wall the moment they needed the private note a human coordinator applies before acting\. Defining a sovereign data boundary, and the buy\-versus\-build rule that followed from it\.
- [The Graph We Added After Token Costs Stopped Us Shipping](https://drjoshuaread.com/graph-we-added-after-token-costs-stopped-us-shipping/): A scheduling agent burned tokens re\-explaining the same rosters, conflicts, and carpool details every turn\. The small three\-node graph that moved context out of the prompt, plus the discovery loop that kept it from drifting\.
- [The Agent We Built Because Nothing Off the Shelf Would Touch Our Data](https://drjoshuaread.com/agent-we-built-nothing-off-the-shelf-would-touch-our-data/): Every vendor wanted our ministry content as training data for their model\. Why we stopped shopping, mapped the fourteen places our real records actually lived, and built one narrow internal agent that changed our release rhythm\.

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## Categories
- [Leadership](https://drjoshuaread.com/category/leadership/)
- [Product Management](https://drjoshuaread.com/category/product-management/)
- [AI \& Technology](https://drjoshuaread.com/category/ai-technology/)
- [Personal Reflections](https://drjoshuaread.com/category/personal-reflections/)
- [Digital Discipleship](https://drjoshuaread.com/category/digital-discipleship/)

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- [product management](https://drjoshuaread.com/tag/product-management/)
- [AI](https://drjoshuaread.com/tag/ai/)
- [leadership](https://drjoshuaread.com/tag/leadership/)
- [digital discipleship](https://drjoshuaread.com/tag/digital-discipleship/)
- [SaaS Growth](https://drjoshuaread.com/tag/saas-growth/)

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