IT contract safety for the buyer
Check whether your contract is not a machine built for long-term milking of the client.
Check whether your contract is not a machine built for long-term milking of the client.
From the WordPress era to GPT, we keep running into the same pattern.
For eighteen months you may pay senior invoices while getting a translator. Here is how to shorten that runway and grow architects inside the organisation.
When a narrow ML model is a bullseye, what a language calculator is, why training your own LLM on contracts is a blind alley, and three questions before you spend the budget.
Technology is only 10% of the BCG recipe. A bad stack choice is vendor lock-in, a migration bill three years out, and a programme that starts life in debt nobody budgeted for.
New stack, new UI — and the same friction on pricing, logistics, and data. A “what you are importing” checklist, four moves before the RFP, and one numeric question before you sign.
Garden furniture at ~€7,000 in the cart, eight calm minutes on site, then exit — no error, no rage click. A €35 case and a €7,000 patio set are two different psychologies — and two different checkouts.
Foundations with autoplay, crowdfunding without a usable right hand — both served disabled communities, neither tested their own site. You are excluding more people than your dashboards suggest.
Technical debt is a ledger of past trade-offs. When nobody is left to fight fires, the culprit is often a chain of earlier shortcuts — not headcount alone.
When fatigue and fragmentation are the norm, even a good process will not carry the day. A short write-up after DevConE #5.
AI deployments diverge by department — no inventory, no owner. Retroactive architecture is how you understand how things are before you decide what to change.
Organizations are building fleets of agents with no governance layer. We introduce a language and inventory model: AIRS — AI Repository of Skills.
Most firms separate deploying a model from owning how people apply it. Until AI is treated as an organizational resource with its own line of accountability — not an “IT project” — the MIT and BCG statistics will stay where they are.