The CAIO's First 100 Days: Beyond Pilot Purgatory
Moving from setting up the office to surviving the execution phase without failing ROI checks. A guide for the new Chief AI Officer.
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Beyond MMLU: The Shift to "Tool Correctness" Metrics
Why standard LLM benchmarks fail for agents, and how to measure real tool usage in production.
The Shift to GenUI: Why Fixed Dashboards Are Dying
Fixed dashboards are the legacy interfaces of 2024. Your users are no longer satisfied looking at pre-canned charts; they expect the interface itself to adapt to the context of their query.
The Agency as an R&D SaaS Incubator
Deep dive into the agency as an r&d saas incubator.
The Valuation of Open Weights: The Intelligence Supply Chain
Open source models are transforming AI from a variable SaaS cost into a strategic capital asset. Discover why owning the weights is the key to Sovereign AI and a 70% reduction in long-term TCO.
Governance: The "Human in the Loop" Fallacy
Humans cannot keep pace with AI outputs at scale. Here is why enterprise growth relies heavily on Constitutional AI, rather than just throwing more human reviewers at the problem.
The Context Window ROI: Why RAG is a Tax on Reasoning
At $5 per million tokens with Gemini 2.5 Pro, the context window is no longer a scarcity. It is an asset class. It is time to rethink the true cost of RAG pipelines.
Agency as a Service: The New Unit Economics of AI
Why selling outcomes vs. selling seats changes your margin profile entirely.
The Build vs Buy Trap for Foundational Models
You are not Google. Your moat is your data, not your ability to pre-train Llama-4. We dissect the math of architecture parity and the rise of Outcome-as-a-Service.
Spot Market Arbitrage for AI: The Economics of Fault Tolerance
If your training loop isn't fault-tolerant, you're paying a 40% 'insurance tax' to your cloud provider. We look at the architectural cost of 30-second preemption notices.
Squeezing the Inference Lever: The Economics of LLM Throughput
Inference price isn't a fixed cost-it's an engineering variable. We break down the three distinct levers of efficiency: Model Compression, Runtime Optimization, and Deployment Strategy.
Why AI Pilots Fail: The 80% Stat
Most enterprise AI fails not because of the model, but because of the 'Last Mile' integration costs. We breakdown the hidden latency budget of RAG.
The Reliability Tax: Why Cheap GPUs Cost More
In the Llama 3 training run, Meta experienced 419 failures in 54 days. This post breaks down the unit economics of 'Badput' - the compute time lost to crashes - and why reliability is the only...
A Guide to Selling When Silence is Golden
Struggling with customers who treat their business context like state secrets? You are not alone. In the world of high-stakes tech sales, "it's confidential" is often code for deeper fears about...
Emerging Tech Projects - Avoid these common pitfalls.
Some ideas on what to watchout for enterprise when starting new projects using emerging technology. This post talks about aspects of scoping, ownership and technology changes. Most of it is obvious...
Cloud adoption and organisation culture
Understanding the ability of an organisation to adapt to cross functional level changes