The last three articles make one argument: once you let software act for your business, the hard part is not the AI, it is governing it: deciding what each agent may do, proving it cannot do the rest, catching the safeguards that quietly failed. But there is a question underneath all of that, and it […]

Why most AI pilots never reach production, and why that stopped being a technology problem. Most AI pilots never reach production. The number that gets quoted is 88 percent. MIT’s 2025 study of enterprise AI put the share that delivered no measurable return at 95 percent. Pick whichever figure you trust. The story underneath them […]

Twenty years of buying taught me what actually mattered. Now that we’re the ones being hired, it’s the bar we try to clear. I spent twenty years hiring consultants. I sat through the polished decks, approved the statements of work, and picked the impressive logo over the right team more than once. I got plenty […]

Why most data transformations stall at the platform, and what has to fall first. Most data transformations I’ve seen over twenty years of watching, buying, and running them have failed in almost exactly the same way. The failure isn’t the platform. The failure is the sequence.A company decides it’s time to modernize. Leadership approves budget. […]