Insights

Perspectives on platforms, AI, and security.

Operational reads on enterprise platform deployment, AI governance, and security architecture for organizations that get audited. New pieces ship as the regulation and the patterns evolve.

Articles below are tagged by topic and practice area. Most are around a 9-minute read. We update them when the underlying regulation or pattern changes.

Platform Strategy May 25, 2026 9 min read

The Platform Deployment Gap: Why Enterprise Implementations Underdeliver

The difference between a successful platform deployment and a failed one is almost never the technology. It is the operational readiness, data quality, integration architecture, and change management that surround it. A cross-sector look at why most enterprise platform rollouts underdeliver, and a 30 / 60 / 90 day playbook for the ones in flight.

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AI Governance May 25, 2026 8 min read

What the New GSA AI Procurement Clause Means for Contractors

GSAR 552.239-7001 is the most prescriptive AI compliance language ever written into a federal contracting clause. Eight obligations, an irrevocable license grant, 72-hour CISA reporting, and an Unbiased AI Principles requirement that is going to be the first audit target. Here is the operational picture and a 30 / 60 / 90 day playbook.

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Security May 25, 2026 9 min read

Building a Compliance Framework That Scales Across Regulators

Most organizations of meaningful size answer to three or more regulators at once. The default is to run a separate program per regulator. The default is also why most compliance functions are over budget and exposed at audit time. The unified control architecture pattern, the multi-regulator stacks we see, and where teams typically get this wrong.

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Deployment Strategy May 25, 2026 9 min read

Why Most AI Pilots Never Become Production Systems

Industry surveys put the AI pilot-to-production rate between 10 and 20 percent. The reason is operational, not technical. A look at where pilots actually break across government, healthcare, financial services, and enterprise technology, with a 90-day playbook to find out whether yours will ship.

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Series Coming Soon

The AI Deployment Playbook

A 13-week series covering the full lifecycle of enterprise AI deployment, from discovery through post-launch accountability. One operational chapter per week.