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Notes from engagements — what actually breaks migrations, why dashboards go unopened, and what changes when an agent is grounded in data nobody's checked.

July 14, 2026Migration6 min read

Most data migrations don't fail at cutover — they fail three weeks earlier

By the time a migration goes dark in production, the actual mistake usually happened during scoping, when nobody surveyed what was really running.

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June 2, 2026Analytics & BI5 min read

The dashboard nobody opens is a maintenance cost with no return

Most BI backlogs aren't a build problem. They're a decision problem — dashboards get commissioned for meetings, not for the Monday morning someone has to act.

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April 21, 2026Applied AI7 min read

Grounding AI agents in data you can actually trust

An agent is only as reliable as the governance underneath it. Most production incidents we've seen trace back to access and lineage gaps, not model quality.

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February 18, 2026Team Enablement5 min read

What a good handoff actually looks like

A handoff that's just a slide deck and a Zoom call isn't a handoff. Here's what we build into every engagement so the platform survives us leaving.

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