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Clear filtersOperatingThe Single Point of Failure in a Solo PortfolioBeing the single point of failure is the strongest objection to running a portfolio solo. Here is the honest risk, what I do to bound it, and why I accept the rest.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.StrategyWho Is Liable When Your AI Agent Gets It WrongWho is liable when an AI agent makes a mistake? The answer depends on whether you can prove what it did. Governance decides where the liability lands.EngineeringHow to Find the Bus Factor in Your CodebaseBus factor measures how much of your repo only one person understands. Learn to find knowledge concentration risk in code and spread it before it hurts.ThesisIs Your Shared Foundation a Single Point of Failure?A shared foundation means one bug can break every app at once. Here is how to get the compounding upside without turning the foundation into a portfolio-wide fault line.StrategyWhy Enterprise Buyers Ask AI Vendors for Cyber InsuranceEnterprise buyers ask AI vendors to carry cyber insurance before they sign. Here is what the requirement means, how much coverage they expect, and how to handle it.EngineeringSingle-Maintainer Dependency Risk Is the One to WatchOne person maintains the library your product depends on. Here is why single-maintainer dependency risk is worse than an unmaintained one, and what to do.EngineeringHow to Evaluate Open Source Dependency Health Before You Adopt ItStars do not tell you if a library is alive. Here is how to evaluate open source dependency health before you build your product on top of it.