IT Staffing
In-house vs contract engineers: the arithmetic nobody shows you
Base salary is roughly two-thirds of the real number. Once you add loading, recruiting and ramp, the comparison against contract staffing changes shape entirely.
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Insights
Notes from inside real engagements.
Writing on architecture, AI systems, modernisation and the tradeoffs behind them — published as we ship the work, not on a content calendar.
Managed IT
What managed IT services actually cover — and what they quietly don't
Two MSP contracts at the same monthly price can differ wildly in what they actually commit to. The clauses that matter surface only when something breaks.
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Software Engineering
Why software estimates go wrong, and how to read one properly
Estimates fail for structural reasons, not because people are bad at guessing. What separates a defensible estimate from an optimistic one.
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AI & Automation
Why enterprise AI pilots fail — and what separates the ones that don't
The failure is rarely the model. It's the data access, the integration surface, and a success criterion nobody agreed on. A look at the patterns behind stalled AI programmes.
8 min read
Cybersecurity
The security work that actually prevents incidents
Most incidents don't involve anything exotic. They involve an over-permissioned account, an unpatched system, or a backup nobody tested.
6 min read
AI & Automation
What it takes to put an AI agent into production
The gap between an agent that demos well and one that runs unattended is mostly permissions, failure behaviour and evaluation — not model quality.
7 min read
Digital Transformation
Legacy modernisation without the big-bang replacement
Two-year replacement programmes fail for structural reasons, not execution ones. The alternative is less dramatic and considerably more likely to work.
7 min read
Cloud & Infrastructure
Why cloud migrations overrun their business case
Lift-and-shift produces a datacentre on rented hardware at higher cost. The overrun is predictable from the migration strategy chosen at the start.
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