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Practical writing on AI cost, quality, and the control layers that keep multi-user systems honest in production.

AI Contract Management: Automating Review and Risk Assessment
AI Contract Management: Automating Review and Risk Assessment
18 Aug, 2026 | 17 Mins read

Legal review scales poorly. A contracts team can process a certain volume per person per week. When the business grows, the team either grows proportionally or contracts queue up behind review capacit

Lessons from aviation safety for AI system design
Lessons from aviation safety for AI system design
17 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Commercial aviation has a fatality rate of roughly 0.07 deaths per billion passenger miles. This is not an accident of technology. It is the result of a safety culture that was built, over decades, fr

The observability maturity model for AI systems
The observability maturity model for AI systems
16 Aug, 2026 | 07 Mins read

Most AI systems in production operate with observability that was designed for traditional software. Teams monitor CPU, memory, network, and error rates. These metrics tell you whether the server is r

Web scraping legality update: what changed this quarter
Web scraping legality update: what changed this quarter
15 Aug, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The legal landscape for web scraping shifted twice this quarter, and the changes affect any organisation that scrapes web data for AI training, RAG pipelines, or market intelligence. First, a US fede

Context Injection: The Briefing Book
Context Injection: The Briefing Book
14 Aug, 2026 | 09 Mins read

A new vice president joins the company. Before the first day, the executive assistant delivers a briefing book: the company's history, the current strategic priorities, the key people, the pending dec

MCP server ecosystem: what's production-ready in 2026?
MCP server ecosystem: what's production-ready in 2026?
13 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released in late 2024 as a standardised way for AI models to interact with external tools and data sources. By mid-2026, the server ecosystem has grown to hundreds

How to run an AI architecture review
How to run an AI architecture review
12 Aug, 2026 | 07 Mins read

An architecture review for an AI system catches design flaws at the cheapest possible stage: before implementation. A data pipeline that cannot handle the expected volume, a model serving architecture

Scaling a recommendation engine from 1K to 10M users
Scaling a recommendation engine from 1K to 10M users
11 Aug, 2026 | 06 Mins read

A video streaming platform grew from 1,000 beta users to 10 million subscribers over thirty months. Their recommendation system was rebuilt three times during this period. Each rebuild was triggered n

The art of saying no to AI projects
The art of saying no to AI projects
10 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Every AI team I have worked with has a graveyard of projects that should have been killed early but were not. A chatbot that no one uses. A recommendation engine that does not outperform a simple heur