Index

Writing on what determines whether AI programs survive year two, and the engineering discipline that makes shipping repeatable.

Procurement

Mugdha Pandit·May 18, 2026
The 90 Minutes That Decide Whether Your AI Program Ships.
A single pre-signing conversation predicts enterprise-AI program survival better than any other procurement signal. Most buyers do not book it.

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CAIO

Kevin Dickerson·May 4, 2026
The Fractional CAIO Playbook.
Most full-time Chief AI Officer hires at this stage will fail. The work is real. The shape of the hire is wrong.

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SLOs

Kevin Dickerson·Apr 7, 2026
SLOs for Agents.
Most teams measure model quality and ship hoping reliability follows. It does not. Agents need their own signals.

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Enterprise Transformation

Mugdha Pandit·Mar 10, 2026
What Cloud Transformation Taught Me About Agentic Programs.
The hardest lessons of enterprise cloud transformation are about to be relearned in AI. Most of them are organisational, not technical.

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ROI

Kevin Dickerson·Feb 10, 2026
The Agent ROI Floor.
Most enterprise agent business cases plan against the ceiling. The number that decides whether the program is real is the floor.

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Forward-Deployed Engineering

Kevin Dickerson·Jan 13, 2026
What Forward-Deployed Engineering Actually Means.
Most companies claiming the label deliver something else entirely. The real practice has a five-part test.

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Build vs. Buy

Kevin Dickerson·Dec 9, 2025
Build vs. Buy in the Agent Era: A Decision Framework.
The build-vs-buy decision is not about engineering capability. It is about whether you can sustain the thing you build.

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Orchestration

Kevin Dickerson·Nov 11, 2025
Orchestration Is Where Agent Projects Die.
Most agent projects fail in production. The orchestration layer is why.

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