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Embrace the Human to Overcome the AI Capability Absorption Gap
Why we need more focus on learning, thinking and knowledge engineering if we are to make progress with AI-enabled organisational transformation
 • Lee Bryant
How can Enterprises Create their own Agentic AI Evaluation Capabilities?
Why agentic systems are outpacing our ability to judge them and how we can evaluate their work effectively rather than just sampling outputs
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agents at the Ready? Yes and No...
Mythos, memex and management - how the various layers of agentic AI development are moving at different speeds and why we need to bring them together
 • Lee Bryant
The Autonomous Project Manager
What happens when coordination becomes a system, not a role
 • Cerys Hearsey

March 2026

Agents of Progress or Agents of Chaos?
The delta between personal and enterprise agentic AI development is worrying, but perhaps combining the two offers a way to help overcome their…
 • Lee Bryant
Same Models, Different Worlds
How outcomes, skills and context combine to create compounding organisational intelligence
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agents on the Night Shift
Self-improving agents, Socratic dialogue and temporal stress: things to think about on the way towards agentic engineering and machines that make…
 • Lee Bryant
Programmable Governance & Probabilistic Humans
How probabilistic humans and collective intelligence could reshape AI governance
 • Cerys Hearsey
Humans in the Loop or in the Soup?
How can we create governance systems that are quick and detailed enough for the AI era, but also maintain human-in-the-loop safeguards and…
 • Lee Bryant

February 2026

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