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ConsultApr 22, 20267 min read
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Why deck-only AI consulting dies on contact with production.

The gap between a beautiful slide and a running system is where most enterprise AI initiatives quietly die. Here's the autopsy from fifteen years inside the room.

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BuildApr 15, 2026
The Gore Lens: encoding expert knowledge as toggleable rules.

A scientist will never trust a black-box relevance score. Here's how we built a 9-rule expert lens that scientists could reason about — and turn off — one rule at a time.

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BuildApr 8, 2026
MCP servers are the new SaaS integration layer.

Every legacy SaaS connector — Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Looker — gets a second life as an MCP server. The companies that ship MCP first will own the agent-native enterprise.

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BuildApr 1, 2026
Your RAG problem is an eval problem, not a vector-store problem.

Teams burn months optimizing chunk sizes, hybrid retrieval, and reranker stacks. Then they ship — and discover they never had a reliable way to know if the answer was right.

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ShipMar 25, 2026
In autonomous trading, the kill-switch is the architecture.

The Trading Terminal runs unattended. That is only possible because the risk caps, position sizing, and shut-off logic were designed before the alpha logic — not after.

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ConsultMar 18, 2026
An AI Center of Excellence that ships MLR-compliant work.

Pharma agencies cannot move fast and break things. Medical, Legal, and Regulatory review is non-negotiable. Here's how we built a CoE that compresses launches from three months to two weeks anyway.

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ShipMar 11, 2026
Options flow analytics: decision support, not black box.

Unusual flow is a hypothesis, not a trade. The Options Lab is built to surface hypotheses, force the human to vet them, and only then route to execution.

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ConsultMar 4, 2026
A principal-led studio outperforms a 50-person consultancy on shipped systems.

Counterintuitive — and structural, not heroic. Six things change when the advisor and the build team work as one unit.

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