Insights
Independent perspective on adopting AI with judgement.
Considered views on AI strategy, enterprise LLM adoption, governance, knowledge management and transformation — written for boards, investors and leadership teams making consequential AI decisions.
Building an AI Strategy That Boards Can Support
Why credible AI strategy starts with commercial value and governance, not technology — and how to frame it in language a board can own.
Choosing the Right LLM for Enterprise Use
Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Gemini, Llama or Mistral? The right choice depends on your data, controls and use cases — not benchmarks.
How RAG Changes Enterprise Knowledge Management
Retrieval-Augmented Generation turns a firm’s own documents into a trustworthy, cited knowledge assistant — if the foundations are right.
Preparing Microsoft 365 for AI
Before Copilot creates value it can expose years of neglected permissions. What to fix in your Microsoft 365 estate first.
What Every Managing Partner Should Know About AI
The AI questions that belong on a managing partner’s desk — about value, confidentiality, accountability and the firm’s reputation.
Private Equity and AI Value Creation
How operating partners can separate genuine AI value creation from narrative — in diligence and across the hold period.
Agentic AI: Opportunity and Governance
AI agents can take actions, not just answer questions. That is the opportunity — and precisely why governance has to come first.
AI Security in Professional Services
AI introduces new security exposures — data leakage, prompt injection, shadow usage — on top of the confidentiality duties firms already carry.
Board Questions Every AI Programme Should Answer
A concise set of questions that lets a board test whether an AI programme is under control — without becoming technical.
AI Governance for Law Firms
What partners need in place before AI moves from experiment to everyday practice — and how to demonstrate control to clients and regulators.
Technology Risk in Professional Services
The concentration risks hiding in modern firm operations, and a practical approach to resilience that boards can stand behind.
M&A Technology Due Diligence
Why technology and data diligence so often determines whether value survives a deal — and the questions acquirers should be asking.
Operational Resilience
Moving beyond disaster recovery to a credible, tested capability that protects client confidence when something goes wrong.
Lessons from Regulatory Intervention and Recovery
Governance under pressure, decision-making in difficult environments, and what genuine operational recovery requires of leadership.
Why Technology Due Diligence Often Misses the Real Risks
The risks that determine whether an integration succeeds are rarely technical. They sit in culture, operations, governance and key-person dependency.
AI Governance Beyond Policy Documents
A policy is not governance. Real oversight depends on accountability, ownership of risk and a board that understands its responsibilities.
What Good Transformation Leadership Looks Like
Most transformation programmes do not fail for technical reasons. They fail on leadership, stakeholder management, governance and execution discipline.