Insights
Notes from the space between funding and building.
Applied AI without the marketing gloss, how evaluation actually works, what the funding landscape is signalling, and what any of it costs to run.
Innovation economics
4 August 2026
The ROI question everyone skips
Most AI business cases are built backwards, from a solution that already has a champion. Here is the version that survives a second budget cycle.
4 min read
Funding landscape
28 July 2026
Reading an Impact section the way an evaluator does
Most proposals lose points in Impact, not in Excellence. The reason is structural, and it is fixable in a week.
4 min read
Applied AI
14 July 2026
What an agentic system actually costs to run
Demos are priced per call. Production is priced per task, and the difference between the two is where most AI business cases quietly fail.
3 min read
Innovation economics
30 June 2026
Build versus buy for AI, decided in three questions
The decision is usually made on instinct and defended afterwards. Three questions settle it faster, and survive the next budget review.
3 min read