An Executive View of AI Governance
A short executive briefing on the governance questions a leadership team should be able to answer before AI touches operational decisions.
Planned for 2026
In preparation
Intelligence Papers
Original architectures, frameworks and applied thinking for intelligent businesses.
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Business Systems Enterprise Architecture Artificial Intelligence 2026
Ideas, Architectures and Frameworks for Intelligent Businesses
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Featured Paper · INTELLIGENCE PAPER 01 / 2026
Building AI-Ready Business Systems — Foundation
An AI-ready business system is not an application connected to a Large Language Model. It is a governed environment in which organisational knowledge, user identity, secured access, purposeful retrieval and LLM intelligence work together as one capability — independent of any industry, platform or model generation.
CategoryAI-Ready Business Architecture
Reading time39–47 minutes
PublishedAugust 2026
IncludesFoundational Architecture + Universal Classification
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Beyond the Sales Order: Building Customer Commitment Governance into ERP Systems
A customer's Purchase Order or accepted contract creates the commitment; the Sales Order records it. This paper sets out how an ERP turns that record into governed execution — validation, ownership, controls, compliance, risk, escalation and subcontractor governance.
24–30 min
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Building AI-Ready Business Systems — Foundation
Connecting a Large Language Model to existing software does not make a business system AI-ready. This paper sets out the foundation beneath it: governed knowledge, verified identity, purpose-aware retrieval and bounded LLM reasoning.
39–47 min
August 2026 View Paper
August 2026 View Paper
Designing Intelligent Operations
On the operational boundary between assisted decisions and automated ones: where control, accountability and oversight have to sit.
Planned for 2026
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Integration Architecture for Connected Businesses
An architectural study of what separates a genuinely connected business from a collection of applications joined by interfaces.
Planned for 2026
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The Structured Data Advantage
A working paper on data modelling for business systems — relationships, master data discipline and the design decisions that determine whether operational data can be reasoned about later.
Planned for 2026
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Building AI-Ready Business Systems — In Practice
The practice companion to Paper 01 — taking the same foundation from framework to working system.
Planned for 2026
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