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What an AI pilot costs before it earns anything, why the restore you never tested is not a backup, and how a .NET Framework application moves forward without a rewrite. Every piece comes out of an engagement — no roundups, no predictions.

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2026-07-28

§ 02 — Featured

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Measure the process before you automate it

The most expensive automation failures we are called in to fix all share one property: nobody recorded what the manual process actually cost, so nobody can tell whether the replacement is better.

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Hana Sørensen
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28 JUL 2026
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  1. 0012026-07-28

    Measure the process before you automate it

    The most expensive automation failures we are called in to fix all share one property: nobody recorded what the manual process actually cost, so nobody can tell whether the replacement is better.

    Automation · Measurement · Process

    Delivery5 MIN
  2. 0022026-06-30

    What an AI pilot should cost you before it earns anything

    Most AI pilots stall at the second budget review, and it is almost never because the model underperformed. It is because nobody built the thing that would have proved it did not.

    Generative AI · Evaluation · Pilots

    AI6 MIN
  3. 0032026-05-14

    Moving off .NET Framework without a rewrite

    Almost every .NET Framework application we are asked to replace should be migrated instead. Here is the order the work goes in, and the four things that actually block it.

    .NET · Migration · Legacy

    Engineering6 MIN
  4. 0042026-04-22

    The restore you never tested is not a backup

    Every organisation we assess has backups. Roughly half have never restored from them. The gap between those two facts is where recovery plans go to die.

    Disaster recovery · Azure · Operations

    Cloud5 MIN

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