Applied AI insights
Applied AI insights, articles and practical guides.
Practical writing from the delivery side: what holds in production, what the law actually requires, and how to measure whether any of it is working. South African context, sources cited, no hype.
Published
Evaluation and adoption
What is a golden evaluation set?
The small, honest test set that decides whether an AI workflow is fit for your work — and how to build one from your own cases.
Sovereign AI and POPIA
POPIA, data residency and sovereign AI
What hosting location changes, what section 72 actually conditions, and a data-plane / control-plane way to structure sensitive workloads.
In the works
Four editorial lanes, published as each piece clears review. Titles below are planned, not yet live.
Sovereign AI and POPIA engineering
- POPIA section 72 and offshore AI processing: a decision framework
- South African AI hosting options: questions buyers should ask
B-BBEE and ESD capability building
- Designing a verifiable AI supplier-development programme
- The evidence pack for a capability-building sprint
KZN operational playbooks
- From shipping documents to exception queues
- Three-way invoice matching for transport operations
Evaluation and workforce adoption
- Measuring hallucination, latency, cost and escalation
- What happens when models, prompts or source data change?