Series
Letters from the Contextual Agentic Enterprise
Short letters to the people making decisions about enterprise AI agents: CIOs, directors, architects and engineers.
Each letter is written to someone facing a real decision about AI agents: a CIO whose pilots are becoming production systems, a director asked to oversee risks the organisation hasn’t named yet, an architect whose team can now generate code faster than anyone can understand it.
The letters accompany the book, The Contextual Agentic Enterprise. Each one makes a single argument and ends with something concrete to do on Monday.
In this series
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From Assistance to Agency: Why Enterprise AI Creates a New Architectural Problem
Letting a service desk assistant reset MFA is not phase two of the same programme. Once an agent can change state, the question becomes what it may change, and on whose authority.
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A Model Can Recommend an Action. It Does Not Acquire Authority to Perform It
Directors ask whether their AI is safe. The better question is on whose authority it acts, because accuracy, confidence and technical access are not a delegation.
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Six Frameworks Answer the Question. None of Them Ask Yours.
TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL, SAFe, programme management and enterprise risk each answer a real question about the enterprise. So do the AI management standards, and so do the vendor agent platforms. None of them answers the one that decides whether an agent should have acted.
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Better Models Won't Fix the Enterprise: Why Context Must Come Before Autonomy
Most enterprise AI programmes begin with a model question. The question that decides whether the initiative becomes useful and trusted is what the system is allowed to know, decide and do — and how anyone will prove it acted appropriately.
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Owning the Weights Is Not Owning the System: What Open-Weight Models Give an Enterprise
Open-weight models give an enterprise real and specific control: where inference happens, what the model is adapted on, what the unit economics look like, and whether the system still runs when the network does not. They do not transfer the supply chain, the regulatory obligation, the evidence or the contestability of knowledge. Those remain the enterprise's work.