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Knowing whether you are ready to build

Most AI projects are decided before engineering starts — by whether the workflow was measurable, the data was reachable, and anyone owned the metric. How to tell, and what to fix first.

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Strategy·4 min·Sep 2026

What is an AI readiness assessment, and do you actually need one?

A scored diagnostic across five operational dimensions that tells you whether you can ship and what to fix first. What a good one contains, what it can't tell you, and when to skip it entirely.

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Strategy·5 min·Sep 2026

Audit → Build → Operate: the three-phase model for AI that ships

Three phases, each ending in something that runs rather than something that reads. Why the order can't be rearranged, and what goes wrong when a phase gets skipped.

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AI Agents·7 min·Jun 2026

Why your AI pilot never reached production — and the five gates that get it there

Pilot purgatory is an engineering problem, not an ambition problem. Here are the eval, ownership, and rollback gates that separate a demo from a deployed agent.

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Evals·1 min·May 2026

You don’t have an AI strategy until you have an eval suite

A model you can’t measure is a model you can’t trust in production. How we build evals before we build the agent.

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