Field note24 July 2026 · 7 min
The KPI contract: why dashboards do not create decisions
A metric without an owner, a threshold and a cadence is a number on a screen. The contract is the artefact that matters.
Author: Sim Cuthbert · Principal
Insights
Thinking a competitor could not publish unchanged.
Field notes from delivery, board briefs for governance decisions, and original research with the method attached.
Board brief11 July 2026 · 9 min
Evaluation-first AI: what a board should ask before approving scale
Six questions that separate a governed AI programme from a collection of demos, with the evidence each one requires.
Author: Sim Cuthbert · Principal
Explainer2 July 2026 · 6 min
Integration debt compounds silently
Why point-to-point connections feel cheap at the moment of build and expensive for the following decade.
Author: Sim Cuthbert · Principal
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