Insights

Short positions from our current engagements — written for boards and leadership teams, not for engineers.

What we're telling boards this year

Agentic AI

The pilot graveyard is an evaluation problem

Most stalled AI projects never defined what "correct" looks like. A 300-example golden set, built with the people who do the job, is the cheapest investment in your AI programme.

Cost & sovereignty

Small models are winning the second wave

For narrow, high-volume tasks, a fine-tuned 7–14B model on your own infrastructure now beats frontier APIs on cost, latency and data-residency — if you have the evaluation discipline to prove it.

Governance

Regulators are asking for traces, not policies

MAS guidance, the EU AI Act and India's DPDP rules converge on one practical demand: show the decision, the data it used and who approved it. Build the log before you build the agent.

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