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A body of work on how leaders build, govern, and orchestrate intelligent systems — from context engineering to agentic architectures to the transformation operating model.

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Four interconnected domains that define how organizations navigate the AI era. Each is a body of research, not just a topic.

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AI Strategy

Product, organization, and transformation in the AI era.

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Multi-agent architectures, control planes, and orchestration.

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Writing, selecting, compressing, and isolating context at scale.

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Frameworks, compliance, ethics, and the EU AI Act.

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AI StrategyFramework

Somebody Has to Come When You Pull the Cord

Culture eats strategy, sure, but culture you can count is a cord, a list, and somebody who shows up. A practical take on blocker registries, daily unblocks, and what it means when the same people keep clearing everything.

16 min readApplied
A ContextNest vault distributing governed context to isolated agent roles versus dumping everything into one shared context
Context EngineeringAnalysis

What Coding Agents Ship When You Govern Their Context

I gave the same coding model the same vague request three ways, changing only which context each step was allowed to see. On a real app, the difference was the gap between a demo that renders and software that works.

7 min readApplied
A study with labeled boxes for Requirements, Research, Prototype, Implementation, and QA agents, under a chalkboard reading Strategic Ignorance, and a card that says let them forget so they can improve
Context Engineering

Strategic Ignorance

I have argued a lot for broad context. Here is the nuance: the value is not more context, it is the right context, at the right time, for the right purpose. Sometimes the highest-leverage move is making an agent forget.

3 min readApplied
A governance layer deciding which artifacts are approved, current, and verified before retrieval runs
Context EngineeringFramework

What 'Context Governance' Actually Means

The plain-language version of our arXiv paper: the layer beneath retrieval that decides whether an artifact was approved, current, and verifiable before the agent ever reads it, and two experiments showing why that layer is cheaper and more correct.

3 min readOperational
A knowledge graph forming a brain over a terminal — a governed context frame for a second brain
Context EngineeringField Note

Your Second Brain Needs a Better Context Frame

Notes pile up, the AI forgets, and the whole thing turns to slop. The missing piece isn't a better model or another app — it's a context frame. Here's the one I built, on video, plus a guide you can hand to your own AI.

3 min readApplied
A hash-chained, version-verified context layer sitting beneath retrieval and an AI agent
Context EngineeringFramework

Context Governance, Now With a Paper

ContextNest is now a peer-reviewable spec. Our new arXiv paper formalizes context governance — the layer beneath retrieval that decides what's approved, current, and verifiable — and backs it with two controlled experiments.

2 min readOperational
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