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AI Strategy

AI Readiness Assessment

8 dimensions, 16 statements, 5 minutes. Calibrated against what actually goes wrong in production AI deployments.

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AI Cost & ROI

AI Cost & ROI

PTU vs PAYG with real utilization math. Marketplace billing traps that drained $1,600 in startup credits. Honest cost frameworks.

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AI Governance

AI Governance That Ships

Six operational components. ISO 42001 alignment. EU AI Act August 2026 readiness. Microsoft Purview, Entra, Foundry, Sentinel mapped to controls.

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Topical clusters

Six clusters. Six audiences. One stack.

AI Cost & ROI

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AI Governance & Risk

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AI Strategy & Readiness

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AI Architecture

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Microsoft Copilot Governance

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Power Platform Governance & Operations

For power platform admins.

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AgentOps on Microsoft Foundry: A Practitioner Decode of the New CI/CD Reference Architecture (2026)

Practitioner read of Microsoft's new Foundry CI/CD reference architecture: the 5-layer pipeline, evaluation-driven release gates, and where the architecture understates the operational work.

The Agent Product Owner: Microsoft Just Formalized the Hire Most Enterprises Haven't Made (2026)

Microsoft's 2026 playbook formalizes the Agent Product Owner role. The practitioner read on what it does day to day, what to hire for, and why it matters.

From Assist to Execute: The Reference Architecture Implications Microsoft's Playbook Doesn't Draw (2026)

The Assist-to-Execute shift in Microsoft's Agentic Patterns Playbook is the right conceptual move. This is the reference architecture implications the playbook stops short of drawing.

Don't Build an AI Center of Excellence Until You Read This (2026)

Critical practitioner read of Microsoft's AI CoE framework: the seven assumptions the playbook makes about Executive Sponsors, role authority, and CoE evolution that fail in most real enterprises.

The Pilot Trap: Why Most Agent Initiatives Never Become Portfolio (2026)

Microsoft's 2026 playbook names 'many pilots, no portfolio' as the top scale-breaker. This is the practitioner read on why agent pilots stall and what it actually takes to graduate to portfolio.

Risk-Tiered Agent Governance: Microsoft's Tier 1/2/3 Model Annotated for Real Deployments (2026)

Microsoft's 2026 playbook gives you a 3-tier risk model for AI agents. This is the practitioner annotation: concrete controls, tooling, cadence, and the Tier 0 the playbook does not name.

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