No. 01
BusinessJuly 14, 2026
Your AI bill has stopped being a licence and started being a meter
AI has stopped behaving like software and started behaving like a raw material. Budget it as a variable cost, cap it and meter only what pays its way.
Topic
AI procurement
9 essays
No. 02
TechnologyJune 23, 2026
Six labs, one product: how to choose an AI tool when they all do the same thing
Six AI labs now ship the same agent. When the demos all look alike, choose on workflow fit, switching cost, data gravity and team habit, not features.
No. 03
BusinessJune 8, 2026
The end of cheap AI: how the subsidy era ending changes the SMB playbook
The AI subsidy era is ending and frontier-model bills are rising fast. A 90-day routing playbook to keep your SMB's AI costs predictable, not painful.
No. 04
BusinessJune 7, 2026
Sold the agent, shipped the assistant
Most agentic software is assistive once it lands in your account. The questions to ask so you can tell roadmap from running product before you buy in.
No. 05
TechnologyJune 2, 2026
The part you're not choosing
Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini each wrap a model inside a product. Learn to tell the layers apart and you can lower your AI spend and buy software wisely.
No. 06
BusinessMay 31, 2026
The UK's £500M bet: what the Sovereign AI Fund gets right — and still gets wrong
The UK's £500M Sovereign AI Fund is the right call on speed, compute and visas — but it doesn't fix the reason British AI is worth more in California.
No. 07
BusinessMay 28, 2026
The headless turn: what to renegotiate before your next SaaS contract
Per-seat pricing was a polite fiction. Four major vendors stopped pretending this fortnight. Here is what every SaaS buyer needs to renegotiate today.
No. 08
BusinessMay 5, 2026
AI snitch: when the Met's Palantir tool hunts the Met
The Met's Palantir AI flagged hundreds of officers in a week. Workplace AI surveillance has crossed into the UK public sector — what it means for you.
No. 09
BusinessMay 4, 2026
The $3 frontier: what DeepSeek V4 does to your 2026 AI budget
DeepSeek V4-Pro just matched Opus 4.7 on coding at a seventh of the cost. The four-bucket framework for rewriting your 2026 AI budget — by Q3 ideally.