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Everything we publish comes from shipped engagements — architecture decisions, governance calls, and economics with the numbers left in.

Featured · Architecture

The Model-Agnostic Stack: An Architecture That Survives Frontier Races

Most AI systems are welded to one provider's SDK. We break down the four-layer architecture we use with every client — routing, evals, memory, and interfaces — that lets teams swap models in days, not quarters. Includes the reference patterns and the trade-offs nobody blogs about.

Read in the newsletterAug 12, 2026 · 9 min read

Strategy

Your AI Readiness Score Is Lying to You

Maturity models sell consulting hours. Here's what they miss — data half-lives, shadow adoption, and the readiness metric that actually predicts pilot success.

Jul 28, 2026 · 6 min

Agents

Agents at Work: Where Copilots End and Autonomy Begins

The line between assistant and agent is a risk decision, not a tech decision. A field guide to choosing per workflow — with the escalation patterns we deploy.

Jul 9, 2026 · 8 min

Governance

EU AI Act, One Year In: What Changed for Mid-Market Teams

Enforcement reality versus the panic. Which obligations actually bite at your size, the documentation regulators asked for, and a compliance path under 90 days.

Jun 21, 2026 · 11 min

Economics

The Hidden Cost Curve of Token Pricing

Your pilot was cheap. Your scale-out won't be. Modeling inference costs past the demo stage, when caching matters, and why unit economics decide model choice.

Jun 3, 2026 · 7 min

Engineering

Eval-Driven Development: Testing AI Like Software

"It seems better" is not a release criterion. The eval harness we ship with every engagement — golden sets, regression gates, and judge models that hold up.

May 15, 2026 · 10 min

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