Insights
Field notes from a Brussels AI advisory and engineering practice: strategy, regulation and what actually holds up in production.
AI strategy and AI governance
All 2 → Essays on AI strategy and governance: where AI creates value, what the EU AI Act asks of you and the discipline that makes an ambitious system safe to ship.
- LONG-FORM · 8 MIN A demo is a promise and production is where you keep it A pilot that impresses the room has proved almost nothing. The value only arrives the day the system runs for real, measured and trusted. 1 Jun 2026
- LONG-FORM · 7 MIN Agents are for the work the rules cannot name Most work wants a script. The interesting part is the slice that genuinely needs an agent, the work no rulebook can name. 14 Oct 2025
Regulatory readiness
All 3 → The EU AI Act, NIS2, GDPR and DORA read as design constraints rather than as fear. Deadlines, duties and what is worth building first.
- LONG-FORM · 8 MIN Security has quietly become a reason customers say yes Your customers’ auditors now ask about your security before they sign. The OWASP Top 10 is the language that conversation is held in. 1 Jun 2026
- LONG-FORM · 8 MIN The calm in a crisis is just decisions you made earlier The calm operator in a crisis is not braver than anyone else. They are working through decisions they already made, on a clock they already knew. 1 Jun 2026
- LONG-FORM · 6 MIN AI literacy is the part of the Act worth running toward The Act’s deadlines keep moving; one obligation has not. It is the one worth building first. 11 Mar 2025
Operator’s diary
All 7 → What we learn running real systems in regulated production. Written by Philippe Kaivers and Oussama Elgoumri, the people with their hands on it.
- FIELD NOTE · 8 MIN AI is the first tool that can both create technical debt and clear it AI is the first tool that can both create technical debt and clear it at industrial speed. Which one it does for you is a choice, not a feature. 1 Jun 2026
- FIELD NOTE · 8 MIN A human in the loop is only oversight if they can say no Putting a human in the loop is easy. Keeping that human awake, informed and able to say no is the part that actually protects you. 1 Jun 2026
- FIELD NOTE · 8 MIN A backup you have never restored is just a hope with a file size Everyone has a backup. Far fewer have ever restored one under pressure. The gap between the two is the whole of disaster recovery. 1 Jun 2026