GovernanceAug 2026
The board pack is not a control
Quarterly reporting tells directors what happened. It does not give them a hand on the wheel. What real oversight instrumentation looks like.
Insights
Field notes from the practice.
Essays on AI safety, governance and organisation design — written from inside live engagements, not from the sidelines.
Organisation designJun 2026
Name the human: decision rights for autonomous systems
Accountability survives only when it has an address. A pattern for assigning ownership of model decisions that outlives the reorg.
Responsible AIApr 2026
Refusal is a feature: designing systems that can say no
Well-designed AI declines gracefully. On refusal thresholds, calibration, and why a confident 'not this one' builds more trust than a fluent guess.
RegulationFeb 2026
EU AI Act, six months in: what actually changed
Beyond the headlines — the operational duties that bite first, and the three artefacts regulators keep asking to see.
Field notesDec 2025
What we learned instrumenting 40 model fleets
Patterns from a year of deployments: where drift hides, which alerts teams ignore, and the one metric boards actually use.