# 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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