- 10 October 2026
AI agent development services: what you're buying, and how to tell a working agent from a prototype
AI agent development services can produce a convincing prototype in days. What a buyer pays for is everything after it: integration, evaluation on real data, exception handling, oversight in production and someone accountable for the result. What to ask for, and what the evidence says about agent projects that stall. - 3 October 2026
ERP migration: what it costs, why it overruns, and the alternative
An ERP migration is the most expensive way to fix a process problem and the most common. What a migration involves, what Panorama and Gartner say about its odds, the two failures every CFO knows, and when a layer on top of the existing system is the better answer. - 16 September 2026
How enterprise AI procurement is changing
Buyers are moving from evaluating advertised AI capability to validating production results on their own data. The shift is a rational response to the gap between AI spending and results, and it favors providers that can show a running result over a demonstration. - 14 August 2026
Build, buy, or hire an AI capability: the decision an operator actually faces
Before you evaluate any AI vendor, you face a prior decision: build the capability in-house, buy a working result, or hire for it. The choice turns on three quantities you can estimate. - 26 June 2026
How to baseline a process well enough to stand behind a result
An outcome-aligned engagement is only as honest as its baseline, and most baselines are self-reported and wrong. Here is the measurement machinery that makes a before-and-after comparison defensible. - 22 June 2026
When not to automate, and what an honest engagement does when the savings don't show up
A clear-eyed account of the workflows that make bad automation candidates, why first principles predict it, and what a vendor actually does when the projected hours never appear. - 2 June 2026
How to tell an AI delivery vendor that ships from one that demos
A buyer's procedure for separating vendors that put working software on your data from vendors that sell decks, built on the base rate that most organizations have not yet scaled AI beyond pilots.