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Notes on applied AI
Plainly written pieces on the questions this programme is built around: what the tools actually do, how a company really runs, and what changes when you rebuild a process with AI.
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Featured · The Gulf
What the Gulf’s operators want from applied AI
In Dubai and Abu Dhabi the appetite is for AI that moves a real number, not AI as a headline. That is a demanding, healthy bar.
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East Africa · 20 Sept 2026
Building AI-native operations from Nairobi
East Africa is not catching up to a playbook written elsewhere. It is a place to build operations AI-native from the start.
5 min read →Pharma & life sciences · 18 Sept 2026
AI in life-sciences operations: where it helps, where it must not
A practical look at applying AI to how a life-sciences business runs, from research operations to supply, without touching the parts that must stay human and audited.
9 min read →Finance · 15 Sept 2026
What finance teaches about pricing risk with AI
Finance has always been the business of pricing uncertainty. AI changes how fast you can assess a case or a deal, not whether judgement still owns the call.
5 min read →The shift · 12 Sept 2026
Coding stopped being the bottleneck
AI writes the code, runs the numbers and drafts the documents well enough that the hard part is no longer the execution. It is knowing what to build.
4 min read →How business runs · 10 Sept 2026
How to see where a business leaks time and money
Most waste hides in the handoffs between people, not inside any one job. Here is how to find it.
5 min read →AI tools · 8 Sept 2026
Judging an AI tool against a real task
Demos flatter tools. The only honest test is a real task, run three ways, with a rubric decided in advance.
4 min read →Building without code · 5 Sept 2026
Building a working tool without writing code
Assembling a working answer is now less about syntax and more about clear specification and honest testing.
5 min read →Agentic AI · 2 Sept 2026
What you can, and cannot, delegate to an agent
Agents are useful exactly where the task is bounded and a mistake is cheap to catch. Guardrails are the whole game.
6 min read →Techno-commercial · 29 Aug 2026
Costing a process before and after AI
A change is only real when you can show what it cost before, what it costs after, and what you gave up.
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