Insights

Positions we are willing to defend

Short pieces from our subject matter experts on the decisions clients are making right now. No vendor summaries, no trend round-ups. The editorial line-up below is what we are writing; tell us which one you want first.

Application

Hive code, not vibe code: what review looks like when the machine writes most of it

Generation stopped being the bottleneck. We set out the gates that keep agent-written code supportable, and the three places teams usually skip one.

In the pipeline
Cloud

Sovereignty is an architecture decision, not a procurement clause

Where data rests is the easy half. We work through processing, support access and key custody, and what each one costs to get wrong.

In the pipeline
Cyber

Your agents have credentials. Who governs them?

Non-human identity now outnumbers staff in most estates. A practical model for issuing, scoping and retiring machine and agent identity.

In the pipeline
Data

Why your AI pilot stalled, and why it was never a model problem

Six failure patterns we see repeatedly, all of them upstream of the model, and the smallest fix that moves each one.

In the pipeline
Digital

Being cited beats being ranked

Buyers increasingly ask an assistant before they open a search results page. What that changes about content, entities and measurement.

In the pipeline
UI4AI

One interface, many engines: the case for putting a layer in the way

Why a thin access layer beats standardising on a single vendor, and the governance you get for free when you build one.

In the pipeline

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