Insights

Ideas for better AI and data decisions

Practical writing on AI investment choices, production readiness, governance, and the organizational realities behind durable capability.

Decision-oriented writing

The Insights hub is not generic AI commentary. It is a practical authority surface for executives deciding where value comes from, where programs stall, and what conditions are required to make AI and data capability stick.

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Editorial promise

Every article should help a leader make a sharper operating decision.

The writing is organized around funding choices, pilot-to-production risk, governance, infrastructure, and the human operating model behind AI adoption.

  • Practical framing over AI-news recaps.
  • Original Applied Analysis perspective.
  • Clear relevance to executive action.

Current articles

AI research governance · Sep 21, 2026

AI governance increasingly starts with the prompt

The Navier-Stokes AI controversy shows why prompts, research context, intellectual property, and tool terms now belong in the same governance conversation.

AI investment · Aug 24, 2026

What makes an AI opportunity worth funding?

A practical framework for separating promising ideas from expensive distractions before the portfolio fills up with pilots that never earn the next step.

AI operating model · Jul 6, 2026

The AI boomerang is an operating-model warning

AI-driven layoffs can look efficient on a planning slide, but replacing people without redesigning work often sends companies back to rehire the talent and judgment they cut.

AI infrastructure · Jun 1, 2026

Can AI infrastructure keep up with demand?

A reused Applied Analysis example on why compute, memory, storage, and power constraints should shape AI investment-readiness decisions.

AI economics · May 22, 2026

When cheap tokens get expensive

A reused Applied Analysis example on why agentic workflows should be evaluated by task-level economics, not only vendor token prices.

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