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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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Dataverse MCP, Business Skills, and Coding Agents: The 2026 Decode

Dataverse MCP server, Business Skills, Coding Agents plugin shipped May 5, 2026. Adopt-now-or-defer decision frame, five pilot gotchas, procurement surface.

Azure AI Foundry vs Azure OpenAI: The 2026 Decision

Azure AI Foundry vs Azure OpenAI: the rebrand is consolidation, not deprecation. Decision tree, 8 scenarios, and the migration mechanics that bite.

Claude on Azure: The Marketplace Billing Trap

Why Microsoft for Startups credits do not cover Claude on Azure Foundry, where Claude Opus 4.7 actually deploys, and the pre-flight checks architects must run before shipping.

AI Proposal Writing on Foundry: Multi-Model Patterns That Ship

A four-phase proposal pipeline running on four different LLMs. Prompts, evaluator metrics, and the eval-suite that lets you swap models cleanly.

Six Rules for LLM-Agnostic AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry

Foundry Model Router routes 18 models across providers. Six rules for AI agents that survive the next vendor rotation, with a proposal-writing example.

AI Engineering Productivity ROI: Tokens vs Closed Tickets

Vendor AI dashboards count tokens. The CFO counts closed tickets. A framework with cited inputs and an illustrative ROI calculator for the AI engineering operating model.

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