Writing
Long-form writing on engineering organization systems and the architectural decisions that produce them. Most of these are aimed at CTOs and senior engineering leaders trying to make sense of why their teams are working harder than the system seems to justify.
The agents nobody authorised
Shadow AI accounts for 20% of breaches. Shadow agents are worse than shadow apps — they act at machine speed, hold access indefinitely, and leave no evidence trail to reconstruct.
September 3, 2026 · 9 min read
How would you know it worked?
95% of GenAI pilots show no P&L impact. The cause named across the research is the absence of a success metric defined on day one — and agents fail in a way that makes the usual metrics lie.
September 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Your AI pilot isn't blocked by the model
93% of CTOs carry technical debt and 86% of CFOs call it a barrier to AI. The reason is more specific than 'legacy systems' — you cannot grant autonomy over an estate nobody can map.
September 3, 2026 · 10 min read
The agent that spends the money shouldn't be the one that judges the spend
Separation of duties is older than AI, and agents dissolve it silently — because nobody reads the union of an agent's tools the way they read an org chart.
September 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Why your AI pilot never shipped
Only 11–14% of enterprise agent pilots reach production. The demo tested whether the model could. Production tests four things the demo structurally cannot.
September 3, 2026 · 10 min read
The hidden cost of "we'll fix it later"
A forensic accounting of deploy infrastructure debt across the four cost categories most CTOs systematically undercount.
April 25, 2026 · 9 min read
Why your engineers are firefighting deploys at 2am
A diagnosis most CTOs miss — and the architectural lever they own.
April 25, 2026 · 10 min read
Six indicators your deploy infrastructure has crossed from working to dangerous
Six observable, binary diagnostic questions for whether your deploy pipeline has crossed from friction into architectural debt.
April 25, 2026 · 10 min read
The staging-to-production gap
Seven dimensions where staging structurally diverges from production — and why your team can't see them from inside.
April 25, 2026 · 10 min read
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