White papers
Field notes from the front line of agentic AI risk — written for the people who answer to regulators, auditors, and boards. Rigorous, sourced, and built to be acted on.
three-part series
Enterprise AI Value
Read in order for the full argument, or jump to the part you need.
- Part 1 6 July 2026 11 min read
From Pilot to P&L: The Economics of Enterprise AI Value
Why about 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots never reach the P&L, the four gates that fix the operating model, and the unit economics that cut LLM run cost 88%.
AI economics FinOps Value realizationRead Part 1
- Part 2 6 July 2026 9 min read
Silent Failures and the Ten-Year Platform: AI Risk, Resilience, and Renewal
The most expensive AI failures return HTTP 200 — pricing model drift as a financial exposure, running statistical failures with incident discipline, and designing a platform that survives to 2036.
Model risk Platform resilience MLOpsRead Part 2
- Part 3 6 July 2026 14 min read
The Reference Design: An Executable Blueprint for the AI Platform
The design to hand a Staff MLOps engineer on day one — the stack and the seams that keep it replaceable, six pipelines with the gates wired in, gateway and policy configuration, and a 90-day plan with definitions of done.
Reference architecture Platform engineering MLOpsRead Part 3
two-part series
The Agentic CLI Architecture
Read in order for the full argument, or jump to the part you need.
- Part 1 17 May 2026 12 min read
The Agentic CLI, Today: Claude, Codex & Gemini Compared
An architectural side-by-side across eighteen dimensions — what each tool bets on, and where they diverge most sharply.
Agentic AI CLI architecture Comparative analysisRead Part 1
- Part 2 17 May 2026 10 min read
The Agentic CLI, Tomorrow: An Ideal-Design Synthesis
A synthesis of what the next generation of agentic CLIs should look like — grounded in current computer science and constrained to what a competent team could ship in six to twelve months.
Agentic AI System design Computer scienceRead Part 2
three-part series
Frontier AI Threat Defense
Read in order for the full argument, or jump to the part you need.
- Part 1 16 May 2026 14 min read
Strategic Context: The Frontier AI Offence–Defence Shift
Why vulnerability discovery has been commoditised, why autonomous offence still favours frontier capability, and what the regulatory clock now demands.
Cyber risk Banking & securities Regulatory complianceRead Part 1
- Part 2 16 May 2026 10 min read
The Red-Team Playbook: Attack Vectors, Tabletops & Detection
A tactical playbook — the full attack-vector catalogue, banking-specific tabletops, red-team objectives, and the detection engineering to catch them.
Red-team operations Threat detection Agentic AI securityRead Part 2
- Part 3 16 May 2026 8 min read
Metrics & Governance: KRIs, KPIs & Board Oversight
The measurement and assurance layer — key risk and performance indicators, the quarterly board dashboard, examiner focus areas, and the source-integrity discipline behind the series.
Risk metrics Governance Audit & assuranceRead Part 3
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