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Essays, frameworks, and field notes from our work at the frontier of enterprise AI. Practical. Opinionated. No filler.

StrategyMay 2025
7 min read

Why Most AI Pilots Fail Before They Begin

The problem is rarely the technology. It's the mismatch between what the business asks the pilot to prove and what a pilot is structurally capable of demonstrating.

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ImplementationApril 2025
11 min read

The RAG Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter

Retrieval-augmented generation is now table stakes. The quality of your retrieval pipeline — chunking strategy, embedding model, reranker — is where the differentiation lives.

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AutomationMarch 2025
9 min read

Agentic Systems Are Not a Product — They're an Org Chart

The organisations that are getting real value from AI agents aren't treating them like software. They're treating them like new team members with well-defined scopes of authority.

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DataMarch 2025
13 min read

Your Data Is Not Ready for AI. Here's the Path Forward.

The most expensive AI mistakes we see come from organisations that underestimated their data infrastructure debt. A practical framework for assessing and closing the gap.

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StrategyFebruary 2025
6 min read

The Hidden Cost of the Wait-and-See AI Strategy

Caution feels responsible. But in a market where AI capability is compounding monthly, delayed adoption has measurable costs that accumulate invisibly.

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LeadershipJanuary 2025
8 min read

What the Board Needs to Understand About AI Risk

The risks that boards worry about — hallucinations, bias, job displacement — are real but manageable. The risk they rarely discuss is the one that keeps us up at night.

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