Insights

Writing from inside the work

Notes on agentic organisations, finance systems, and the unglamorous work of making AI stick.

A day rate pays for hours. A fixed price pays for a result, and the difference shows up in what actually gets built.

How we engage

Fixed price is a constraint, not a discount

22 July 2026 / How we engage

Fixed price is a constraint, not a discount

A day rate pays for hours. A fixed price pays for a result, and the difference shows up in what actually gets built.

Every finance team we meet wants a faster close. Very few of them have a close problem.

EPM delivery

The close is not the problem

30.06.26

Dimensions remember who won which disagreement. That is why rebuilding one is slow, and why copying somebody else's never works.

Data models

Your data model is a record of old arguments

11.06.26

An agent that cannot read last quarter's decision will make it again, differently, and sound equally certain both times.

Agentic workflows

Agents need somewhere to write things down

19.05.26

Same platform, same scope, near enough the same headcount. One went live in nineteen weeks and the other is still in user testing.

EPM delivery

Two builds, one difference

28.04.26