Insights

Things we’ve learned, written down.

Architecture, applied AI, and modernization — including the engagements where our first approach was wrong.

AIEvaluationMLOpsJune 18, 2026 · 7 min read

Build the evaluation harness before you touch the model

The most common reason AI pilots never ship isn't model quality. It's that nobody can tell whether a change made things better or worse.

Deneen Cole · Principal, Applied AI

ArchitectureModernization9 min

Why rewrites fail, and what to do instead

The rewrite is the most confidently proposed and least frequently completed project in enterprise software. The failure mode is structural, not managerial.

Marcus Ihejirika · May 30, 2026

MobileArchitecture6 min

Offline-first is an architecture, not a feature

Treating connectivity loss as a degraded mode produces software that works in the office and fails in the field. We learned this the expensive way.

Priya Raman · May 12, 2026