White Papers
Research, frameworks, and blueprints from the Sakura Sky team on AI, cloud, data, and security.
The Managed Provider Scorecard: Supplier Assurance Under NIS2 and the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
A seven-question scorecard for evaluating managed service providers against NIS2 and the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, with side-by-side reporting timelines and what-to-do-if playbooks for the incidents that start your clock as well as theirs.
GATE: The Governed Agent Trust Environment
An open framework defining 20 controls across four layers for governing AI agents in production. The deterministic perimeter that wraps the probabilistic model and makes machine-speed action auditable. Updated August 2026 with agent-to-human output validation at the delivery boundary, a signed break-glass contract, machine-validated OWASP AISVS, MITRE ATLAS and NIST SSDF mappings, and a Rust companion crate.
The Executive AI Playbook
A practical leadership framework for governing AI, aligning it to business outcomes, and moving from isolated pilots to durable enterprise impact. Updated June 2026 with new sections on agentic governance, AI unit economics, and the 2026 AI capability stack.
The Autonomous Horizon
A strategic white paper for executive teams. The operating model, the architecture, and the leadership decisions that will define the next decade of autonomous enterprise.
Signal-to-Noise: A Checklist for Evaluating AI Security Tools
A 24-question evaluation framework for security teams procuring AI-driven discovery and remediation tooling. Built around the four-stage funnel from finding to actionable vulnerability.
The Trustworthy Agentic AI Blueprint
A comprehensive architectural blueprint defining the 16 missing primitives required to move from experimental AI to scalable, production-ready enterprise autonomy.
The CTO Playbook for Agentic Systems
A leadership, architecture, and organizational blueprint for AI-native companies - detailing how software that reasons, decides, and acts reshapes engineering, governance, and talent.
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