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Data & AI · Decision guide
AI inference costs: compare the cost of a useful answer
A lower token price can still produce a higher cost per accepted task. This worked example compares model charges, retries and human review on the same basis.
Data & AI · Analysis
When an AI agent is the wrong architecture
Choose between deterministic automation, model-assisted workflows and agents by examining where discretion creates value and where it adds avoidable cost.
Data & AI · Decision guide
Enterprise AI data controls: approve the feature, not just the provider
Training restrictions, retention and customer logging answer different questions. Check the actual AI service, enabled features and configuration before approval.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Data deletion is a workflow across copies, holds and restores
Turn an approved retention policy into a deletion workflow that covers exports, legal holds, backups and restored data, with clear evidence of what remains.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Human approval for AI must control the action that actually executes
Place approval before a consequential AI action, bind it to the exact proposal and test changed inputs, expired consent, retries and emergency stops.
Data & AI · Analysis
Conflicting dashboards: agree what an active customer means
Resolve conflicting dashboard numbers by agreeing the decision, population and time basis, then make the approved definition reproducible across tools.
Data & AI · Analysis
AI productivity: faster output is only half the business case
An AI pilot proves its value when faster production improves the whole workflow. Count review, rework and the work that actually gets done with the time released.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Data migration: define the last safe rollback before cutover
Reconcile business outputs as well as copied rows, track writes during cutover and prove how the old system would recover changes made on the new one.
Data & AI · Decision guide
AI agent evaluation: make the purchase request fail halfway
For enterprise AI leads, agent selection turns on what happens after a timeout, partial success or revoked permission. Test the business transaction, not just the answer.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Monitor an AI service for the failures an uptime chart cannot show
Give an enterprise AI service separate signals for availability, answer quality, data freshness, harm and cost, with an owner for each response.
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