Insights
Selected articles and briefs on AI production.
Selected articles and briefs on AI production, governance-as-code, and Shadow AI — written for senior leaders in regulated enterprises.
Issue #57 — Who Owns the Meter
Billed by result, counted by the seller.
July 23, 2026Issue #56 — The Clauses You Already Signed
The first thing that stops your agent programme is a line in a software contract.
July 16, 2026Issue #55 — Evidence as a Byproduct
When an agent acts on its own, the only account of what it did is the one the system writes while doing it.
July 9, 2026Issue #54 — When Software Starts to Act
The real divide in enterprise AI is not which model you run but whether the system advises or acts on its own.
July 2, 2026Issue #53 — The Knowledge No One Holds
We can now produce more than we can understand, and the gap is becoming a liability
June 25, 2026Issue #52 — The Dependency You Don't Control
Use only as much AI as you really need
June 17, 2026Issue #51 — Fast-Moving Technology
How to plan when the ground shifts.
June 10, 2026Issue #50 — The 'Five Agents Per Employee' KPI Is the Wrong Measure
Counting agents measures motion, not value
June 4, 2026Issue #49 — BPMN Is Not Enough
Why Mapping Your Process Will Not Make It AI-Ready
May 28, 2026Issue #48 — Reskilling vs Training
Why Even Good AI Training Doesn't Fix The Biggest Problems
May 20, 2026Issue #47 — We'll Vibe-Code New ERP for You in Three Days!
What the post-2023 AI consulting cohort skips — and why the upstream work is the work
May 14, 2026Issue #46 — The Sequencing Imperative
Why your first AI deployment determines every one that follows
May 8, 2026Issue #45 — The Brownfield Trap
Why Enterprise AI Fails at the Integration Layer
April 30, 2026Issue #44 — The Shifting Specification
What Happens When Your AI Vendor Silently Changes the Model
April 22, 2026Issue #43 — Governance-as-Code
The Technical Controls That Actually Enforce
April 16, 2026Issue #42 — Cross-Sector Patterns: What Regulated Industries Teach the Rest
Banking, telecoms, pharma, public sector — the same governance failures appear regardless of the industry or the regulator. The causes are structural.
April 9, 2026Issue #41 — The AI Act Is Being Amended. Here's What Actually Changed.
Everyone read the headline. Almost nobody read the vote.
March 31, 2026Issue #40 — Forty Issues Later
I started by writing about AI governance. The problem turned out to be much bigger.
March 25, 2026Issue #39 — AI in Public Sector
Accountability Without an Address
March 18, 2026Issue #38 — AI in Pharma: Navigating the GxP Minefield
AI compressed a twelve-year drug development cycle to five. Watson for Oncology spent $62M without treating a single patient. The difference is not technology.
March 11, 2026Issue #37 — AI in Telco: From Network Ops to Customer Intelligence
90% of telcos report positive AI ROI. Most can't sequence the use cases that generate it.
March 3, 2026Issue #36 — AI governance in Banking
The KNF-Ready Playbook
February 26, 2026Issue #35 — The Integration Layer
The fifth layer of Production OS determines whether the other four are a system -- or a pile of documents.
February 17, 2026Issue #34 — Architecture for Scale
85% of ML models fail silently in production. Here's why.
February 11, 2026Issue #33 — Process Engineering for Human-AI Handoffs
Your human oversight has 23 review steps. Two of them matter.
February 4, 2026Issue #32 — The AI Gateway Blueprint
Your AI governance lives in PDFs. Your risk does not.
January 30, 2026Issue #31: The Business Case Engineering Protocol
Why your AI ideas die in CFO's inbox
January 23, 2026Issue #30: The Production Readiness Checklist
What do you need to confidently say Go?
January 15, 2026Issue #29: The ROI Scorecard
Measuring What Actually Matters
January 9, 2026Issue #28 — Shadow Engineering
The Hidden Cost of AI Democratisation
January 2, 2026Issue #27 — The Speed of Waste
Don't Automate a Broken Process
December 25, 2025Issue #26 — The Data Reality
Why Your 'Clean' Data Fails in AI
December 18, 2025Issue #25 — The 'Expensive Junior' Trap
Why Your AI Strategy Failed Before It Started
December 11, 2025Issue #24 — Shadow AI
It is not only a threat; It's your unpaid R&D Lab
December 3, 2025Issue #23 — The Zombie Pilot Audit
Why 14 of your 15 AI projects must die
November 25, 2025Issue #22 — Simulating Your Business
A Leader's Guide to Digital Twins and Their Risks
November 18, 2025Issue #21 — The Rise of Multimodal AI
Managing a New Risk Surface
November 11, 2025#20 — The Leader as System Architect
Moving from managing people to designing human-AI operational models.
November 4, 2025#19 The AI Auditor is Coming
Preparing for a New Era of Scrutiny
October 28, 2025#18 The Trust Premium
Why Demonstrable Governance Is a Commercial Asset
October 21, 2025#17 The Governance Gap
A framework for boards to demonstrate control over AI
October 14, 2025#16 Governance-as-Code in Practice
The Engineering Toolkit
October 7, 2025#15 The New Front Line
Why Your AI Needs a Bodyguard, Not Just a Firewall
September 30, 2025#14 The True Cost of AI
Beyond the Licence Fee
September 24, 2025#13 API is the New Liability
Governing Your Connections
September 17, 2025#12 Open-Source vs. Proprietary Models
A Pragmatic Risk-Benefit Analysis
September 10, 2025#11 The Vendor Due Diligence Gauntlet
A Framework for Trusting Third-Party AI
September 3, 2025#10 The Gardener and the Storm
Sustaining Governance in a World of Constant Change
August 31, 2025#9 Leader's new job description
Predicting your AI's Blast Radius
August 25, 2025#8 The AI-Augmented Workforce
Leading Through Transformation, Not Fear
August 18, 2025#7 The Ethical Litmus Test
Does your AI know right from wrong?
August 11, 2025#6 Beyond Pilot Purgatory
Why Your Brilliant Pilot Won't Get a Promotion
August 4, 2025#5 AI has the keys
Who Governs the Autonomous Future?
July 28, 2025#4 The Janitor's Closet of AI
Why Your Data Foundation is More Important Than Your Model
July 16, 2025#3 Who are you, and what made you say that?
On AI System definition and on Explainable AI
July 10, 2025#2 AI's Reality Check
The Data You Own vs. The Hype You’re Sold
July 3, 2025#1 Navigating the AI Maze
Beyond Hype to Real Equilibrium
June 26, 2025