Data & Analytics6 min
Build the warehouse before you buy the model
The fastest route to a working AI feature usually runs through six weeks of unglamorous data work. What we check before agreeing to an AI engagement at all.
Insights
Notes from the work.
Short, practical pieces written by the people doing the delivery. No thought leadership, no gated PDFs.
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latestAI & Automation·7 min
Why your AI pilot never reached production
The demo worked. The rollout stalled. Almost always it is one of four things — no evaluation set, no owner, no data access path, or no cost ceiling. Here is how we de-risk each one before writing code.
Read the article- Modern Workplace6 min
Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness: the permissions problem nobody mentions
Copilot inherits your sharing model. If SharePoint permissions have drifted for a decade, it will happily surface that drift to everyone. A practical pre-rollout checklist.
- DevOps & Platform5 min
Deployment frequency is a business metric
Teams that deploy daily change their minds cheaply. Teams that deploy quarterly commit to guesses. How to move from one to the other without a platform rewrite.
- Compliance5 min
Cyber Essentials in a month: what actually blocks certification
Most failures come down to unsupported software, missing MFA on admin accounts, and default firewall rules. A realistic four-week path for a team without a security specialist.
- Cloud & Infrastructure8 min
Reading a cloud bill properly — a 90-minute audit
Idle environments, oversized instances, forgotten snapshots and egress you never modelled. The four line items that account for most avoidable cloud spend, and how to check yours today.
- Mobile Applications6 min
Flutter or native in 2026? An honest decision tree
Cross-platform is the right default for most business apps — and the wrong one for a few specific cases. The questions we ask before recommending either.
- IT Consulting7 min
Buy, build, or configure: a framework for the middle option
The interesting answer is rarely at either extreme. How to judge whether a configured platform beats bespoke software for your process — before you commit a budget.