01Published
The AI Trap
How a useful technology takes practical control of a process before its customer notices, and the seven things a company has to keep in its own hands.
Preserve organizational sovereignty
A study in process revolutions
Governed Intelligence
Four essays on a single problem: organizations are adopting systems that can act faster than they can establish who authorized the action. Each one takes a working assumption apart and puts a principle in its place.
02Published
When Software Started Making Decisions
Software has started making what organizations experience as decisions, while no one has formally decided what it is allowed to decide.
Capability is not authority
03In preparation
The Missing Decision Record
Organizations cannot reconstruct why an AI-mediated decision happened. An explanation written afterward is not a record of why.
Decisions require attributable evidence
04In preparation
The Right to Say No
Automation treats refusal and uncertainty as failure. A system that never refuses has no boundary anyone can prove.
Escalation and refusal are valid outcomes
Essays one and two are published here and on LinkedIn. Three and four are in preparation. Each principle builds on the one before it, and the series is designed to be read in order.
Next step
These are not abstractions in your company
Every essay in this series began with a question a founder or an operator actually asked. If one of them is live for you now, a conversation about your own systems is more useful than more reading.