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AI Strategy

AI Readiness Assessment

8 dimensions, 16 statements, 5 minutes. Calibrated against what actually goes wrong in production AI deployments.

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AI Cost & ROI

AI Cost & ROI

PTU vs PAYG with real utilization math. Marketplace billing traps that drained $1,600 in startup credits. Honest cost frameworks.

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AI Governance

AI Governance That Ships

Six operational components. ISO 42001 alignment. EU AI Act August 2026 readiness. Microsoft Purview, Entra, Foundry, Sentinel mapped to controls.

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Topical clusters

Six clusters. Six audiences. One stack.

AI Cost & ROI

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AI Governance & Risk

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AI Strategy & Readiness

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AI Architecture

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Microsoft Copilot Governance

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Power Platform Governance & Operations

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Foundry Routines Ends the Agent Glue-Code Tax. That Was the Whole Point.

Foundry Routines brings scheduled and event-driven execution into Azure AI Agent Service, collapsing the Logic App and Function stack teams bolt onto every production agent.

Who Can See What? Making Dataverse Security Roles Visible with AccessLens

Dataverse security roles are powerful but invisible. Why effective access is so hard to inspect, and how AccessLens turns access investigations into traceable lookups.

Copilot Studio Runtimes: One Studio, Two Execution Models, and the Wrong Pick Costs You in Production

Copilot Studio runtimes: how agents and agent flows execute and fail differently, plus the rule: if the happy path fits numbered steps, build a flow.

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness Is GA: What It Ships, and What You Still Prove

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is GA. What the production runtime promises for guardrails, observability, and scaling, and what you must verify yourself.

PCF Best Practices for AI-Built Controls: 5 Guardrails That Make Them Production-Safe

AI builds working PCF controls in hours. These five pcf best practices decide whether that control survives real users and the next platform wave.

The Microsoft Agent Framework Claude Code Connector Is the Real Story (Copilot Ships Too)

Microsoft Agent Framework Claude Code and GitHub Copilot connectors just shipped. Why the Claude one is the strategy tell, and how to architect multi-model routing.

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