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Long-form analysis on AI return

What actually moves the number the CFO asks about: measurement, cost, governance, and implementation.

Implementation

The seven controls an AI pilot needs on day one

Access, credentials, file scope, checkpoints, limits, logs and revocation. A month of public incidents says what each one costs when it is missing.

September 19, 2026 · 12 min read

Governance & Risk

Ask AI vendors for lists, not assurances

Third parties were involved in 48 percent of breaches this year. The standard AI vendor questionnaire now runs to 247 controls and still misses what went wrong.

September 8, 2026 · 15 min read

Leadership & Strategy

AI moves your constraint. It does not remove it.

Meta's internal code changes rose 220 percent. The changes that reached users rose 36. A startup I worked with hit the same wall and built for it instead.

September 2, 2026 · 12 min read

Governance & Risk

The ML tools your data team installed are on CISA's exploited list

CISA added four AI platform tools to its actively exploited catalog this year. The warning time ranged from 264 days down to none at all.

August 24, 2026 · 10 min read

ROI & Measurement

Most enterprises measure AI adoption. Almost none measure AI return.

Three widely cited surveys put enterprise AI adoption near ninety percent and measurable financial return under ten percent. The gap is the real story.

August 14, 2026 · 7 min read