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Notes from the awkward middle

Writing about the part of AI adoption nobody demos: what happens between a working prototype and a system somebody is willing to sign their name against. Drawn from advisory work and from running our own AI products in production.

13 October 20268 min readAI Transformation

Why AI pilots stall in regulated organisations

The proof of concept worked, everyone was impressed and then nothing happened for nine months. This is so common it is almost a pattern, and the usual explanations are wrong. The blocker is rarely the model. It is that nobody can say who is accountable when it is wrong.

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13 October 20267 min readAI Governance

ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO 27001: what an AI management system adds

If you already hold ISO 27001, how much of AI governance is already covered? Less than most people assume, but the gap is narrower than the vendors selling you a new programme would like. A practical look at where the two standards meet and where they genuinely do not.

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13 October 20266 min readAI Governance

How to build an AI inventory

Every AI governance conversation starts with the same question, and most organisations cannot answer it. Here is what to record, how to find the systems you did not know you were running and how to keep the list current once the initial push is over.

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