Architecture & engineering6 MIN READ
A CTO’s checklist before an agent reaches production
Production readiness for an AI agent spans workflow requirements, system identity, evaluation, recovery and operations—not just a working model endpoint.
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Leadership and research
Review tools, workshop formats and research methods for leaders accountable for agentic AI decisions.
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10 articlesStrategy & transformation6 MIN READ
A quarterly watchlist for agentic AI leaders
A useful quarterly watchlist tracks changes that could alter real decisions: system authority, evidence, incidents, standards, providers and organisational readiness.
Agent security6 MIN READ
Running an AI-agent incident tabletop exercise
A useful tabletop follows one plausible agent failure through detection, containment, evidence, business recovery and accountable return to service.
Governance & privacy6 MIN READ
The board’s questions about AI agents should begin with authority
Boards do not need to review prompts or model scores. They need a clear account of what each agent may do, whose mandate it carries and how control is recovered.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
Ten artefacts that make an AI-agent decision reviewable
Reviewable agent decisions depend on a small chain of artefacts connecting workflow purpose, authority, configuration, evidence, findings, controls and ownership.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
What product leaders should demand from an agent evaluation
Product leaders need evaluation evidence that connects workflow outcomes, user experience and policy behaviour to a release choice—not a leaderboard score.
Strategy & transformation6 MIN READ
A responsible-autonomy workshop for one real workflow
Responsible autonomy becomes concrete when a cross-functional team maps one workflow’s actions, consequences, evidence and intervention choices.
Agent security6 MIN READ
What CISOs need to know about tool-using AI agents
Tool-using agents join untrusted input, probabilistic decisions and privileged action. CISOs should govern that path as a security system, not a chatbot feature.
Evaluation & assurance6 MIN READ
How to design an independent agent benchmark that remains useful
A durable agent benchmark needs a declared construct, protected cases, reproducible execution, uncertainty, governance and limits on the claims its scores can support.
Governance & privacy6 MIN READ
How audit committees can discuss AI without pretending to be engineers
Audit committees can oversee AI through ownership, control evidence, reporting integrity and assurance scope without turning meetings into model-architecture tutorials.
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