Technology Due Diligence
The rewrite hiding under the roadmap
How to spot, before the committee meets, that a product plan quietly assumes an architecture the company has not built yet.
JULY 2026 · 7 MIN
What the assessments keep showing us
Patterns we see often enough to write down.
Everything here comes out of real engagements, with the identifying detail removed. If a finding turns up in enough estates to be a pattern rather than a coincidence, it ends up on this page.
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AI Governance and Security
Nobody knows how many agents they are running
Across our last set of inventories, the number of AI systems actually running in production consistently exceeded the number on the client register. The gap was not shadow IT in the old sense. It was teams doing exactly what leadership asked for, quickly, with the credentials they had to hand.
AUGUST 2026 · 9 MIN READ
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Sovereign AI Cloud
Six costs that never make it onto the quote
Power, cooling, network, licences, spares and the people who run it at three in the morning. Where the three year number actually goes.
JULY 2026 · 11 MIN
AI Governance and Security
Accuracy numbers measured on data the model had seen
Why so many production evaluations overlap their own training set, and how to build a held-out set that actually tells you something.
JUNE 2026 · 8 MIN
Method
Why we score an absence of evidence as zero
The most common argument we have with clients, and the reason we will not resolve it in their favour.
JUNE 2026 · 5 MIN
Sovereign AI Cloud
The building decides the design
Rack density and cooling method constrain everything above them, and they are the layer most programmes discover last.
MAY 2026 · 9 MIN
Technology Due Diligence
Two people who cannot leave
Reading commit history and interview notes together to find the key person risk that a headcount plan will not show you.
MAY 2026 · 6 MIN