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Notes on AI, cloud, integration and what actually reaches production, from the team doing the work.

Latest · Artificial intelligence

28 August 2026 · 5 min read

Why the guardrails are the expensive part of an AI agent

Getting a model to read a document well is the afternoon. What makes it safe to run unattended is everything around it, and that work costs the same whether the agent is for one client or fifty. Which is precisely why it keeps getting skipped.

The model is the cheap half. Confidence thresholds, routing, audit logging, evaluation and failure handling are the work that decides whether an agent ships.
Guardrail engineering costs roughly the same for one client as for fifty, which is what makes bespoke agents economically awkward.
Almost every agent worth building turns out to be a variation on a small number of shapes.

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Governance

Governance decisions that are cheap on day one

Nobody books a governance workshop. It arrives later as a question from an auditor, a client security review or a privacy complaint. Four decisions cost close to nothing at the start and a great deal once there is data in the system.

25 August 2026 · 5 min read

Custom software

Build or buy, before you commit either way

By the time build or buy reaches a meeting, somebody usually has a preference and the meeting exists to ratify it. These are the questions that settle it honestly in an afternoon, including the ones that argue against writing custom software at all.

18 August 2026 · 5 min read

Cloud

The real drivers on a cloud bill, ranked

Nobody asks for a cost review because they read something about FinOps. They ask because the bill grew faster than the business did and no one can name the workload responsible. Here is where the money usually is, and which fixes are worth doing first.

12 August 2026 · 5 min read

Artificial intelligence

What a proof of value should actually prove

Most AI pilots succeed and go nowhere. Usually because nobody agreed, before the build, what result would justify funding the next stage, so the demo becomes an opinion rather than a decision.

5 August 2026 · 3 min read

Integration

Why we reduce systems before we integrate them

Every integration you add is something that can fail at 2am. Before we connect anything, we try to work out what can be removed instead, and the arithmetic makes the case better than any argument does.

14 July 2026 · 3 min read

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What we’re writing next.

These are the pieces we keep starting in client conversations and haven’t yet written down properly. If one of them is the question you actually have, it’s faster to ask us than to wait.

What an AI usage audit actually finds

Six domains, and the findings that come up in almost every estate we review, including the tools nobody approved.

Migrations that actually finish

Why the old environment is still switched on, what a wave plan changes, and how to decide what should never move.

The exception path is the product

What a system does when it is unsure decides whether it can run unattended. Most designs treat it as an afterthought.

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