Insights
No trend pieces. Mechanisms, numbers and the mistakes we made so you can skip them.
Written by the engineer
Not a content team. Every article comes from a system we actually built.
Mechanisms, not trends
How the automation works, what it cost, and the mistakes we made first.
Including what fails
Our prompt-injection piece has a section on what you cannot defend against.
All articles
12 Aug 20267 min
Prompt-injection hardening for enterprise data agents
A threat model for agents that touch ERP and CRM data, the layered defences we ship, and the attacks you cannot fully block, so you contain them instead.
21 Jul 20267 min
From 4 hours to 8 minutes: anatomy of an order-processing automation
A stage-by-stage teardown of a logistics order pipeline: ingest, extract, validate, reconcile, post, the human gate, and what broke in week two.
01 Jul 20266 min
Agents vs. workflows: when an LLM belongs in the ops loop
Deterministic workflow, LLM step, or autonomous agent. A decision framework, the failure modes of each, and where the model sat in a real 4h-to-8min automation.
09 Jun 20266 min
The AI readiness audit: 14 questions before you automate anything
Most AI pilots die before the first prompt. Fourteen questions across data, process, people and risk that tell you if you are ready.
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The AI Readiness Checklist for CTOs.
14 checkpoints we run before any automation engagement. Ten minutes to fill in. It tells you where the money is, and where the risk is.
- Where your data actually lives (and who can read it)
- Which processes are automatable in 30 days
- The three failure modes that kill AI pilots
- A scoring sheet you can hand to your board
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