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Threat research, standards analysis, and field notes

A research hub for CISOs, CTOs, risk officers, and enterprise architects securing production AI systems.

AI Security·9 min read

AI Security Control Model: a production operating model

A gated framework for securing AWS, GCP, Azure, LLM applications, and agentic systems from estate discovery through audit-ready assurance.

Aug 22, 2026Read →
AI Security·6 min read

Provenant: build-time adversarial assurance for agentic AI

An agent is only as trustworthy as the tools it can reach. Provenant red-teams an agent's MCP tool configuration in the delivery pipeline — and blocks the pull request before an unsafe agent ships.

Jun 27, 2026Read →
Compute·5 min read

GPU utilization is the only metric that matters

Throughput, latency, queue depth — useful, sure. But if your GPUs are sitting at 38% you don't have a serving problem, you have a billing problem.

May 2, 2026Read →
Inference·6 min read

The hidden cost of cold starts in inference

Autoscale-to-zero looks cheap until you bill p99 latency at 14 seconds and learn what your users actually feel.

Apr 8, 2026Read →
Retrieval·5 min read

When to use a vector DB — and when to use plain Postgres

The dedicated vector database is the most over-bought piece of infrastructure in 2026. Most teams already had the answer in their main database.

Mar 20, 2026Read →
Agents·7 min read

Designing agentic systems that don't burn money

Agents fail loudly when they crash. They fail expensively when they don't.

Feb 26, 2026Read →
AI Security·8 min read

LLM red-teaming without lobotomizing your product

It's easy to make a model refuse everything. The hard part is making it refuse the right things while still being useful.

Jan 11, 2026Read →