Insights
Short essays drawn from live engagements — written by the practitioners doing the work, not the marketing team. One or two articles per quarter. Procurement-relevant, technically honest, no vendor pitch.
The pieces below are scheduled for publication. Each is anchored in a real engagement and reviewed for client confidentiality before release. If you want notification when a specific article publishes, mention it in your briefing request.
01
Cybersecurity
Q2 2026 — forthcoming
9 min read
Most Zero Trust deployments fail their first compliance audit. We unpack which policies hold up under SOC 2 and ISO 27001 scrutiny, where customers cut corners that always come back, and how to design identity boundaries that survive a regulator walking the system end-to-end.
02
AI & Data Science
Q2 2026 — forthcoming
12 min read
The headlines focus on detection accuracy. The procurement teams should focus on three other numbers: false-positive friction cost, model retraining cadence, and the half-life of a feature before adversaries adapt. We share what we have measured across deployed systems.
03
Technology Integration
Q3 2026 — forthcoming
8 min read
Every enterprise carries integration debt — the half-built bridges between systems no one wants to own. We propose a pragmatic accounting framework: how to quantify it, where to stop the bleeding first, and which legacy connectors are cheaper to retire than to maintain.
04
Creative Media
Q3 2026 — forthcoming
7 min read
AR, VR, and real-time graphics are easy to commission and hard to justify on a P&L. We outline the four metrics that consistently distinguish memorable events from measurable ones — and where the cheap creative-tech wins actually live.
05
Government & Defense
Q4 2026 — forthcoming
14 min read
Five patterns we have seen survive contact with multiple immigration regimes simultaneously: standardised data fusion, jurisdiction-aware routing, sovereign data residency, audit-by-default logging, and the under-discussed problem of officer-facing UX under pressure.
06
Procurement
Q1 2026
10 min read
The questions a procurement team typically asks tell you very little about whether a delivery firm will succeed. We list the twelve we would ask if we were on the buying side — escalation paths, attrition rate on the engaged team, and what happens when the engagement lead leaves mid-programme.
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