No hype, no vendor pitch decks — the same diagnostic thinking behind our advisory work, written out.
Durable rules for AI decisions when evidence is incomplete and the demo looks great — each with the failure it prevents and the question that tests it.
Same tools your team already uses — different contract, different data terms.
The hand-off between a pilot and a defensible system is where most efforts break.
The important switches in your AI stack still sit with the vendor, not you.
What a thin platform hub actually needs to have real mandate from day one.
Each of these contradicts a piece of vendor consensus, rests on disclosed evidence, and can be proven wrong by a specific, named piece of counter-evidence.
The heaviest EU AI Act obligations were pushed to December 2027. The cheap ones have been live for over a year, and most companies haven't checked which is which.
Model files can execute code the moment they're loaded. Researchers have found over 200,000 vulnerable instances of the protocol connecting AI assistants to outside tools.
OWASP's 2026 ranking moved this risk from sixth to third. No adversary required — just an agent with permissions nobody scoped down.
Vendors retire model versions on non-extendable timelines. Most companies have no pinning or regression discipline for when that happens.