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Agent or Workflow: How to Decide What Should Be Autonomous
Most systems called agents should be workflows with a model call inside. The four shapes, a scoring rubric, and when autonomy is worth what it costs.
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Document AI: When LLM Extraction Beats OCR Templates, and When It Does Not
LLM document extraction reads layouts OCR templates cannot, and invents fields it cannot read. When it beats IDP, what it costs, and the controls it needs.
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Platform Teams Are Being Handed the AI Mandate, and Most Are Not Resourced for It
The AI platform mandate lands on the team that owns the gates. It is the second platform consolidation, and the scope has to be renegotiated on the way in.
finance
Know Your Business: Why Verifying a Company Is Harder Than Verifying a Person
A company has no biometric and no single registry. Why KYB still takes days, what beneficial ownership really requires, and how to tier verification by risk.
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Embedded Lending: The Question Is Always Who Holds the Loan
Embedded lending is a credit business with a software channel, not a software business with a credit feature. The models differ by who eats the loss.
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Service Level Objectives: Setting Reliability Targets That Survive Contact With the Business
SLI, SLO, and SLA are three different things. How to pick targets users can perceive, and why the error budget policy is the only part that changes behavior.
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