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Practical thinking on enterprise AI

Written by practitioners, not theorists. Every piece is grounded in production outcomes from regulated environments — not vendor whitepapers or hypothetical frameworks.

AI Cost OptimisationMarch 2026

How We Achieved a 93% AI Infrastructure Cost Reduction in Production

Azure AI Foundry pricing at scale will surprise most organisations. We switched to a hybrid routing architecture — managed APIs for latency-sensitive workloads, self-hosted GPU clusters for high-volume batch processing. Here is the exact methodology.

AI GovernanceFebruary 2026

The Five Dimensions of Enterprise AI Governance That Boards Actually Care About

Most AI governance frameworks are written for technical teams. Boards have five specific concerns — and they are not the ones you think. This article maps each concern to a concrete control framework.

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RegulationFebruary 202612 min read

UK AI Act Compliance for Financial Services: What You Actually Need to Do

The UK AI Act creates new obligations for high-risk AI systems. For financial services, insurance, and healthcare organisations, this is not optional. A plain-language breakdown of what changes, what doesn't, and the 12 actions to take now.

AI RiskJanuary 20269 min read

Hallucination in Production: Why 97% Detection Accuracy Requires More Than Prompt Engineering

Every enterprise AI deployment has hallucination risk. Most mitigation strategies are insufficient. This is the framework we built — grounded in token-level evidence tracing — that achieves 97% detection with under 2% false positives.

AI ArchitectureJanuary 202611 min read

Hybrid LLM Routing: When to Use Managed APIs and When to Self-Host

The binary choice between managed APIs and self-hosted models is a false one. The right architecture routes intelligently based on cost, latency, data residency, and compliance requirements. The economics are more favourable than most engineers assume.

AI GovernanceDecember 20257 min read

Shadow AI in Regulated Organisations: The Risk You're Not Measuring

Employees at regulated firms are using consumer AI tools with production data. Most compliance teams are aware of it. Almost none have quantified the exposure. Here is the assessment methodology and the governance controls that actually work.

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