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Frameworks and mental models for the decisions that define your architecture.
AI Fundamentals
A business leader's guide to the building blocks of AI — no code, no jargon, just the mental models that matter.
Explore → ModelsFrontier Models
The most capable AI models available — and when a frontier model earns its cost vs when a small specialised model wins.
Explore → ProtocolModel Context Protocol
How the Model Context Protocol became the USB-C for AI — the universal standard for connecting AI agents to tools, data sources and enterprise systems.
Explore → StrategyBuild vs Buy
The decision framework every CTO faces — when to build, when to buy, and when to compose. A structured way through the trade-offs that define your stack.
Explore → + calculator EconomicsAI Cost Curves
When API costs cross the self-hosting line — the economics that drive AI infrastructure decisions, and how to spot the crossover before it hits your bill.
Explore → + calculator EconomicsFinOps for AI
AI spend scales with autonomy, not traffic. The circuit breakers, tier routing, caching, and chargeback discipline that keep LLM and agent spend answerable to somebody.
Explore → + calculator InfrastructureAI Grid
How NVIDIA's AI Grid reference architecture distributes AI inference across edge locations — and why it changes the economics of running AI in production.
Explore → + calculator ArchitectureAgentic AI Patterns
From single agents to orchestrated teams — the architecture patterns behind AI that acts, and how to choose between them without over-engineering.
Explore → + calculator CloudEconomic Sovereignty
From cloud chaos to cost control — the framework for regaining economic independence from hyperscaler lock-in.
Explore → + calculator EconomicsFinOps Maturity
Cloud cost control is a capability you grow, not a dashboard you buy. The maturity ladder from raw visibility to unit economics — and the practices on each rung.
Explore → PlatformPlatform Operating Model
How a central platform team serves dozens of autonomous teams without becoming the bottleneck — the operating model behind an internal developer platform.
Explore → ExperienceDevelopers as Customers
Treat the people who use your internal platform like customers, not ticket-raisers. The four journeys every platform has to nail — and how to measure whether it does.
Explore → CloudCloud Repatriation
A decision framework for 2026 — the real survey data, a workload scoring matrix, a 3–5 year TCO model, and the risks. Repatriation as portfolio management, not ideology.
Explore → + calculator InfrastructureModel Compression
Compression is the family. Quantisation is one cousin. The techniques that shrink language models for self-hosting — what they do, what they cost in quality, and which ones you actually reach for.
Explore → + calculator MediaFrom Content Wars to Experience Wars
The streaming industry solved access; now it needs to solve experience. A framework for the shift from content wars to experience wars — and what comes next.
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