Insights — Prasanna

Technology, Systems Thinking

Agents Get the Glamour. Foundries Give Them the Firepower.

Agents get the demos; foundries quietly give them the firepower. What a foundry should decide for everyone, what it should leave to the builder, and why its capabilities set the limit of what can be built.

7 min

Technology, Systems Thinking

Agents Get the Glamour. Foundries Give Them the Firepower.

Agents get the demos; foundries quietly give them the firepower. What a foundry should decide for everyone, what it should leave to the builder, and why its capabilities set the limit of what can be built.

7 min

AI Economics, Systems Thinking

Agentic Systems Need Economic Boundaries

A breach at an AI coding tool is the example; the lesson is bigger. Unknown risks are managed by boundaries, not predictions, and AI economics comes down to simple controls built with the right governing intent.

6 min

AI Economics, Systems Thinking

Agentic Systems Need Economic Boundaries

A breach at an AI coding tool is the example; the lesson is bigger. Unknown risks are managed by boundaries, not predictions, and AI economics comes down to simple controls built with the right governing intent.

6 min

Leadership, Systems Thinking

The Most Dangerous Leader May Be the One with the Fastest Answer

In a multi-million-dollar deal room, one question turned a three-year ERP rollout into a process re-engineering with benefits in the first year. Why the best leaders improve the question before they supply the answer.

7 min

Leadership, Systems Thinking

The Most Dangerous Leader May Be the One with the Fastest Answer

In a multi-million-dollar deal room, one question turned a three-year ERP rollout into a process re-engineering with benefits in the first year. Why the best leaders improve the question before they supply the answer.

7 min

Systems Thinking

The agent and the estate

Most agentic AI programmes do not fail on the target state. They fail on the source state. The pilot works, the agent reasons well, and then it meets the estate. Four ways decades of working systems push back against autonomous agents, and why the messiest estates may hold the biggest advantage.

4 min

Systems Thinking

The agent and the estate

Most agentic AI programmes do not fail on the target state. They fail on the source state. The pilot works, the agent reasons well, and then it meets the estate. Four ways decades of working systems push back against autonomous agents, and why the messiest estates may hold the biggest advantage.

4 min

Systems Thinking, Leadership

Systems Thinking and the Curious Case of the Anthill

Long before I encountered enterprise architecture or AI, an anthill taught me a lesson in systems thinking: the best solutions emerge when we focus not only on what needs to change, but also on what must be preserved.

4 min

Systems Thinking, Leadership

Systems Thinking and the Curious Case of the Anthill

Long before I encountered enterprise architecture or AI, an anthill taught me a lesson in systems thinking: the best solutions emerge when we focus not only on what needs to change, but also on what must be preserved.

4 min

AI Economics

The Economics of Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI becomes valuable when technical possibility is translated into economic choices, operating constraints, and measurable outcomes.

7 min

AI Economics

The Economics of Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI becomes valuable when technical possibility is translated into economic choices, operating constraints, and measurable outcomes.

7 min

Systems Thinking

Architecture Is a System of Decisions

Enterprise architecture is most useful when it improves the quality, speed, and reversibility of decisions across a complex organisation.

6 min

Systems Thinking

Architecture Is a System of Decisions

Enterprise architecture is most useful when it improves the quality, speed, and reversibility of decisions across a complex organisation.

6 min

Ideas for complex systems.

Technology • AI Economics • Systems Thinking

Essays, notes, and working frameworks.

Agents Get the Glamour. Foundries Give Them the Firepower.

Agents Get the Glamour. Foundries Give Them the Firepower.

Agentic Systems Need Economic Boundaries

Agentic Systems Need Economic Boundaries

The Most Dangerous Leader May Be the One with the Fastest Answer

The Most Dangerous Leader May Be the One with the Fastest Answer

The agent and the estate

The agent and the estate

Systems Thinking and the Curious Case of the Anthill

Systems Thinking and the Curious Case of the Anthill

The Economics of Enterprise AI

The Economics of Enterprise AI

Architecture Is a System of Decisions

Architecture Is a System of Decisions

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