Multi-Cloud Versus Consolidation
Most enterprises already run several clouds, whether they chose to or not, so the real question is not whether to consolidate but how to engineer coherence across what they already have. This fifth post in The …
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Activation Is the Hard Part
9 minutes
Most marketing organisations spend on platforms that produce insight and starve the systems that act on it. This post argues that …
Consent Is Data Engineering, Not Legal
10 minutes
Marketing teams buy a consent platform and approve a cookie banner, then assume the privacy problem is solved while personal data keeps …
Why Most Marketing Dashboards Lie
7 minutes
Two marketing reports from the same week, drawn from the same source system, can show opposite trends and both be correct. This post sets …
The Single Customer View Project That Actually Ships
7 minutes
Most Single Customer View projects run for years and never produce a customer view anyone trusts. This post identifies the four predictable …
Every Marketing Question Is Eventually a Data Question
6 minutes
Marketing teams keep buying tools to answer questions their underlying data cannot support. This post argues that every senior marketing …
GATE v1.4 Roadmap
6 minutes
A preview of the next GATE release: output validation, break-glass formalisation, OWASP AISVS and MITRE ATLAS alignment, a Rust library, and …
The GATE Conformance Runner: What You Can Automate and What You Cannot
8 minutes
The gate-conformance v1.2.0 runner automates 9 of GATE's 19 checks against a live evidence store. The other 10 return PARTIAL: not failure, …
GATE v1.3: New Controls for Shadow Agents, Data Quality, and Model Drift
4 minutes
GATE v1.3 adds three new controls and a CLI conformance runner to the Governed Agent Trust Environment, closing three assumptions that …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 5: The Cyber Resilience Act Closes the Last Loophole
10 minutes
Think your AI agent escaped the EU AI Act's high-risk classification? The Cyber Resilience Act lands more than a year earlier, and it …
Engineered Compliance: Beyond Templates
10 minutes
Regulators do not ask for documents. They ask for systems that behave a certain way and the ability to prove it. We introduce Sakura Sky's …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 4: Engineering Under the AI Act - Article 15 Cybersecurity in Practice
10 minutes
How to turn the EU AI Act's stringent cybersecurity requirements into a clean, automated side effect of your existing platform engineering …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 3: How the EU AI Act Made Verification a Legal Question, Not a Best-Practice One
13 minutes
The EU AI Act binds providers and deployers to a continuous, evidenced verification posture by December 2027. Here is the operational …