Insights

Articles and policy submissions

Articles in three groups: technology trends, business and governance. Policy submissions sit apart, because they are on the public record.

Articles

Technology trends, business and governance

Business

Selling, partnering and leading technology businesses.

August 2026

What Does Gold Partner Actually Certify?

Most partner tiers measure revenue, exams passed, and marketing commitments. Buyers read them as a statement about competence and accountability. That gap is where partner programs stop working as trust mechanisms.

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August 2026

Who Actually Carries the Trust?

Enterprise technology has spent forty years trying to manufacture trust through certificates and attestations. Most of those attempts failed — and what actually carried trust has consequences for anyone selling through a channel.

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Governance

Policy, accountability and the rules that shape how AI is used.

October 2026

Who Is Your AI Answering For?

The usual way to give AI access to enterprise data is to copy it. The data travels and the entitlements stay home. A better pattern runs every question as the person asking, and four questions tell you whether a vendor has built it that way.

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Policy submissions

Formal responses to consultations and standards work

Written from the perspective of the organizations that buy, deploy and govern technology. These are submissions on the public record, not opinion pieces.

August 2026  ·  Federal AI Transparency Consultation

Submission to Canada’s AI Transparency Consultation

Thirteen recommendations on how AI transparency rules should work in practice, written from the mid-market buyer’s side of the table. The central argument: rules should follow what a system does, not whether AI was involved in doing it.

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