Insights
Notes from the work — essays, news, and the occasional sharp opinion.
A running record of what I’m building, reading, and arguing about. Engineering leadership, AI-native delivery, and the messy reality of modernising enterprise platforms.
Latest · Essay
3 June 2026 · 4 min read
AI-First Delivery: Running the Pilot the Right Way
Inside our AI-first delivery pilot for SCM — what we're building around coding agents, why guardrails come before velocity, and what early signals tell us.
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3 June 2026
Rebuilding engineering trust: the 90-day playbook.
What I do in the first 90 days when a platform is shipping late, leaking quality, and losing stakeholder confidence.
Essay · 8 min read
29 May 2026
Speaking at the Berlin CTO Roundtable, May 2026.
Notes from the discussion on AI-native delivery in regulated enterprises — and the parts of the conversation that surprised me.
Event · 4 min read
28 May 2026
Cloud budgets don't disappear overnight. They erode quietly.
Notes from an invitation-only executive round table hosted by Silk — on cloud cost architecture, invisible leakage, and the infrastructure tax that AI is adding.
Event · 4 min read
2 April 2026
Scaling a Crown Jewel platform 3× ahead of the Schenker integration.
A short note on the architectural and organisational moves that made the largest milestone in a decade a non-event for customers.
News · 5 min read
21 February 2026
WriteWise: betting on the intermediate language plateau.
Why the B1–B2 wall is the most under-served problem in language learning, and how adaptive AI coaching changes the economics for tutors.
Research · 9 min read