Field notes / insights
Hard-earned notes from production AI, privacy reality, and advisory work.
These are short, opinionated pieces based on what I tell consulting clients. They exist to help serious teams avoid expensive AI mistakes before they book a paid consultation.
Paid consultations and strategic advisory for teams that need clearer AI architecture, production risk, RAG, vendor, or privacy decisions.
AI Reality Checks
Your RAG system is probably a search problem wearing an AI costume
What I tell consulting clients before they spend months blaming the model for retrieval, permissions, and content-quality failures.
5 min read · 2026-06-08
AI Reality Checks
Agents need guardrails, not motivational posters
Agentic workflows can be useful, but only when the boring control plane exists first.
4 min read · 2026-06-08
Production AI
Production AI in 2026 is mostly plumbing. Sorry.
The model matters, but the system around it usually decides whether the project survives contact with reality.
6 min read · 2026-06-08
The European Angle
Running US AI work from Europe changes the privacy conversation
What US companies routinely underestimate about GDPR, data transfers, vendor choices, and operational reality.
5 min read · 2026-06-08
Operator Notes
A senior advisory practice needs fewer wasted meetings
The operating rhythm behind Hive AI: a US company, direct senior access, and focused strategic advisory.
3 min read · 2026-06-08
Production AI
Before you hire an AI vendor, make them answer these questions
A short diligence checklist for leaders who do not want to buy a shiny demo and inherit a maintenance grenade.
4 min read · 2026-06-08
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