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Technology & AI

Where artificial intelligence genuinely helps an advisory firm, and where it is oversold.

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Where AI actually helps, and where it does not →

The category is being sold with a level of confidence the technology has not earned. Some of it is genuinely useful right now, and it is not the part being demonstrated.

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What AI-native should actually mean →

The phrase has been applied to almost every product in this industry, including ones that added a chat box. Here is a test that distinguishes them.

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Nine questions worth more than a demonstration →

A demonstration shows the path the vendor rehearsed. These questions show the product.

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Why your numbers do not match →

Two systems, same account, different answer. It is one of five causes and it is usually the second one.

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The seams are where the cost is →

Every system in your firm probably works. The expensive part is the space between them, and it does not appear on any invoice.

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What an AI policy actually needs to cover →

Your staff are already using these tools. A policy written now is a policy; written later it is a remediation.

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Automation you can still explain afterwards →

The automation is the easy part. Reconstructing why the system did what it did, two years later, is the part that has to be designed in.

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Why this software feels a decade behind →

It is not incompetence and it is not indifference. Four structural reasons, only one of which is anyone's fault.

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Clients judge three things and none of them is your dashboard →

Firms spend on the portal and the reporting. Clients form their opinion somewhere else entirely.

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The model is the least differentiated part →

Buyers ask which model a product is built on. It is close to the least informative question available.

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The data you generate and do not own →

Your firm produces a decade of valuable information. A surprising amount of it belongs, contractually, to someone else.

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The spreadsheet that became infrastructure →

Almost every advisory firm has one. It started as a workaround and now three processes depend on it.

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What to automate first, and what to leave alone →

Firms automate what is annoying. The better order is what is frequent, understood, and cheap to get wrong.

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The portal nobody logs into →

Firms keep rebuilding it. Usage keeps not materialising. The reason is not the portal.

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Four times the right answer is not yet →

Nobody writes the article arguing for waiting. It is frequently the correct decision and it is never the exciting one.

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The security questions worth asking in a small firm →

You hold exactly the data an attacker wants, with none of the staff a large firm has. A short list beats an unread policy.