Not a blog. A collection of points of view — on AI transformation, on how organisations change, on the gap between what technology promises and what it delivers. Written by the people who do the work.
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The fifty-fifty. Why human judgment matters more in the age of AI, not less.
Seventy percent of what we produce is now touched by AI. That number is not a cost metric. It is a description of how we have restructured the work — so that the human time remaining is almost entirely judgment. Here is what that actually means in practice.
Finiteloop8 min read2025
AI Transformation
The AI Assisted trap. Why most organisations are stuck and what moves them forward.
Most organisations that have started their AI journey are sitting at the same stage — AI Assisted. Some results, some momentum, but the real transformation hasn't happened. Here is why, and what changes it.
Finiteloop6 min read2025
AI Transformation
2025
Redesign the workflow, not just the task.
The organisations that get real returns from AI are not the ones that automate individual tasks. They are the ones that redesign entire workflows with AI embedded throughout. The difference is significant — and most firms are on the wrong side of it.
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5 min
Studio thinking
2025
The insight comes before the interface.
On every engagement where the design was genuinely good, the same thing was true — we understood the real situation before we proposed anything. The Nestlé project, the ship spaces project, the seafarer app. All of them began with weeks of research before anyone opened a design tool.
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7 min
Engineering
2025
The engineering had to be right, not close.
When you are handling 1.5 terabytes of seismic data per vessel across multiple vessels in real time, there is no margin for "close enough." On the problems that matter most, precision is not a luxury — it is the product. Here is how we think about building for zero tolerance.
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6 min
AI Transformation
2024
The data existed. The insight didn't.
Seventy thousand safety records. Five years of data. The organisation had everything needed to predict accidents before they happened — they just had not asked the right question of it yet. On what it means to actually unlock the value in data that already exists.
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5 min
Design
2024
Design systems are invisible when they work. That is the whole point.
A design system built for four vendors saved millions in development costs — not because it looked impressive, but because it was invisible. Consistency at scale is not a design goal. It is an engineering goal achieved through design. Here is how to think about it.
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4 min
Studio thinking
2024
In a world moving too fast, the rarest thing isn't intelligence or speed.
It is reliability. It is trustworthiness. Every organisation is racing to adopt AI. The ones who will get the most from it are the ones who find partners they can actually depend on — and those partners are rare. On what reliability actually means in a technology engagement.