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Decision Notes

An executive index of decision dossiers.

Short readouts written for scrutiny. Each note maps: visible symptom, structural cause, and the risk leadership inherits.

Updated periodically · 8–12 minute reads

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Short, focused readouts showing the hidden mechanics of technology decisions: starting conditions • governance blind spots • vendor power dynamics • architectural hard limits • structural organizational tension

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  1. Hidden AI Tax

    9 min

    AI doesn’t “fail” in production. It quietly invoices you through governance drift, uncontrolled vendor behavior, and decision-making that outruns operating reality — until the board asks why outcomes don’t match spend.

    Controls Data & AI Architecture
  2. Incident Readiness as a Board Liability

    9 min

    Weak readiness turns the first hour into confusion and the next month into scrutiny.

    Readiness Delivery
  3. The Architecture Debt You Can’t Refactor

    Some “debt” isn’t technical. It’s contractual, organizational, and product-structural — and it blocks outcomes even when teams “work hard.”

    Architecture Delivery
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