AI Is Not Replacing SaaS

There’s a growing narrative that AI will replace SaaS. If AI can build anything, why pay for software subscriptions? The logic sounds compelling. It’s also flawed. Software is a tool. If you were an advanced AI system, would you reinvent a calculator every time you needed one?Or would you use the calculator that already exists? […]

Agent Governance Is a Systems Design Problem

Governance around AI agents is becoming a louder topic. That’s not a reactionary trend. It’s a predictable one. When agents move from generating text to taking action inside real systems, governance stops being theoretical. Most organizations approach governance as a policy problem.Write the document. Define the rules. Approve the tool. That’s not enough. Agent governance […]

Capability Is Easy. Integration Is the Work.

Last week was full of impressive AI headlines. New models from OpenAI and Anthropic. New benchmarks. Even stories about AI writing compilers that can run games like Doom. That level of capability is remarkable. The progress is real. But most organizations don’t struggle with what’s possible.They struggle with what’s usable. A capability without integration is […]

Systems That Survive the Winter

Winter has a way of exposing weak systems. Pipes freeze.Roads fail.Schedules fall apart. It’s rarely because someone didn’t work hard enough.It’s because the system assumed ideal conditions. Software systems behave the same way. Everything looks fine when volume is low, timelines are loose, and the same people are always around to remember how things work. […]