Writing · Nº 041065 essays
The writing
Ideas from inside the work. Explore technology, entrepreneurship, and the practice of building things that last.
17 essays found · Page 1 of 2
Clear filtersStrategyHow to Evaluate a Business Platform for Your IndustryEvaluating a business platform for your industry means testing it against your real workflow, not a feature list. Here is the checklist that matters.EngineeringThe Governance Checklist Before You Ship an AI FeatureA practical governance checklist to run before shipping any AI feature: logging, refusal, oversight, and a stop control. Ship accountable, not just working.AIHow to Tell If a Process Is Ready to AutomateNot every process should be automated. The signs a process is ready: it is documented, stable, high-volume, and rule-based. Automating a broken one just breaks faster.OperatingThe Enterprise AI Vendor Risk Assessment, From Both SidesA practical enterprise AI vendor risk assessment: the questions buyers use to decide, and the answers vendors should pre-package to clear the review and get to yes.StrategyWhat Belongs in a Shared Foundation and What Doesn'tA checklist for deciding what belongs in a shared foundation across products: the plumbing to centralize, the product logic to keep out, and the test to apply.StrategyA Checklist to Evaluate AI Case Management for PIA nine-point evaluation checklist for AI case management in personal injury: intake, case ops, trust, audit trails, data exit, and onboarding. Score vendors on specifics.AIWhich AI Agent Actions Need Human Approval FirstNot every agent action needs a human, and gating all of them kills the point. Here is a checklist for which agent actions to approve and which to let run.StrategyHow to Evaluate an All-in-One Business PlatformA checklist to evaluate an all-in-one business platform: shared data model, migration path, exit terms, function depth, and total cost. Score before you buy.EngineeringHow to Evaluate an AI Coding PlatformA practical checklist to evaluate an AI coding platform: does it run the full build loop, hold a spec, verify against done, and let one person ship real products?StrategyHow to Evaluate Content Design Tooling: A ChecklistA practical checklist for evaluating content design tooling, the questions that actually matter, and the features that only look important in a demo.StrategyHow to Evaluate a Voting Platform: A ChecklistEvaluate a voting platform on verifiability, auditability, ballot secrecy, and resolution rules, not on feature lists. Here is the checklist I would use.StrategyHow to Choose an AI Agency Operating SystemA practical checklist for choosing an AI agency operating system: what to test, what to ignore, and the questions that separate real platforms from demos.