Data & AI: What Matters & Why

Essays for board members, executives, and the data and AI leaders who have to deliver. Each one takes a single question you're facing right now and works through what matters, why, and what it means for the decisions in front of you. No news roundups, no hot takes.

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The Compliance Button
A proposal promised compliance and never explained how. Why compliance belongs to your organization rather than to any product, and the one question that tests a vendor's claim.

Can You Produce the List?
Boards heard "delay" and moved AI governance down the agenda, but the first EU AI Act obligations did not move. Producing a list of your AI systems is the easy part; keeping it true is the governance question.

Not Everything Needs a Knowledge Graph
A loyalty migration made the data more accurate and much harder to use, and one person's memory was all that stood between the numbers and a bad decision. On the context that never makes it into a system, and why your AI cannot inherit it.

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