Technology leaders

Decision memos for Technology leaders

CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Data & Platform

Architecture, program risk, team models, and build-vs-buy, for leaders who own the technology side of AI transformation.

Three bottlenecks: clarity, capacity, ownership

Technology leaders

When your AI program should strengthen teams instead of adding a delivery vendor

The first question is rarely how many engineers. It is whether you lack clarity, capacity, or ownership.

11 min read
RAG pipeline from ingest through observe

Technology leaders

RAG in production: what the CTO office should own vs delegate

Retrieval-augmented generation is a data platform and operating model. Notebook success is the easy part.

7 min read
Year-two ownership review framework

Technology leaders

Architecture review questions I use before a build vs buy call

Feature checklists hide the decision that matters: can you own this system in year two?

14 min read

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