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Applied research from delivery, staffing, and AI engagements.

Specific, technical write-ups on problems we've actually worked through: how they showed up, what we did about them, and what it cost.

AI & Data

The AI strategy problem nobody has a playbook for: shared infrastructure, no single owner

Most AI retail case studies assume one company controls the data and the systems. That breaks the moment you're designing for a market, a coalition, or any group of independent businesses sharing one customer base.

Sep 19 · 2026 · 4 min readRead more →
Staffing

Talent shortages aren't disappearing: they're moving

Aggregate tech unemployment looks soft, but the shortage never went away, it just relocated to a narrower band of skills. What that means for how you source.

Sep 15 · 2026 · 2 min readRead more →
Staffing

Hiring for skills, not job titles

Job titles compress badly across companies. Skills-based screening fixes a real matching problem, if it's done rigorously, not as a slogan.

Sep 12 · 2026 · 2 min readRead more →
Staffing

AI won't remove the need for recruiters: it'll change what they're doing

AI tooling is genuinely useful for sourcing and screening volume. It doesn't replace the judgment calls that determine whether a placement actually works.

Sep 10 · 2026 · 2 min readRead more →
AI & Data

Don't measure AI-assisted engineering with lines of code

AI coding tools make output volume easy to inflate and easy to measure, which is exactly why it's the wrong metric to manage a team against.

Sep 8 · 2026 · 2 min readRead more →
AI & Data

Two failure modes in uncertainty-aware ML that don't show up in your headline number

A data-splitting bug that quietly voids a statistical guarantee, and a coverage gap invisible in the average. Both are checkable in an afternoon.

Sep 5 · 2026 · 5 min readRead more →