Writing on authentic systems, privacy, and the architecture of trust.
Essays, field notes, and briefs from the AITW Authentica team and our collaborators. Written by the same senior practitioners who do the work.
July 2026
Guide
How to select AI governance tools without buying a filing cabinet.
A buyer's guide: the seven criteria that separate enforcement from documentation, how to read the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF as requirements, and a four-week evaluation that produces a real answer.
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July 2026
Essay
Global by design: software hardened by constraint travels further.
Offline-first sync and low-bandwidth resilience are not concessions to difficult markets. They are engineering disciplines that make a platform dependable everywhere.
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July 2026
Essay
Restraint over reach: the smallest system that solves the problem completely.
Ambition in software is usually measured in surface area. It should be measured in what a system still does correctly three years after the people who built it have moved on.
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July 2026
Essay
Proof over policy: compliance belongs in the system, not the binder.
A governance programme is only as real as the evidence it produces without being asked. Everything else is a description of intentions.
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June 2026
Essay
The Accra Standard: why emerging markets will write the next AI governance playbook.
Frameworks drafted for stable institutions break where infrastructure is intermittent and data is scarce. The systems that survive those conditions travel well.
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May 2026
Essay
Building systems and solutions for existence.
Why the next decade of institutional life will be defined not by AI capability, but by the authenticity of what we choose to build on top of it.
Apr 2026
Field note
Personal data as a fiduciary obligation.
A practical reframing of privacy and data management for boards moving past compliance theatre into something durable.
Apr 2026
Essay
The model registry is the new general ledger.
What financial institutions standing up registries should borrow from a century of accounting practice — and what they should not.
Mar 2026
Essay
Authorship as the last unforgeable signal.
A note on the design thesis behind Brandex and why provenance, not reach, is the scarce resource of the next platform era.
Feb 2026
Brief
Reading the EU AI Act for builders.
A short, opinionated read for product and engineering leaders shipping into the Union — and the privacy and data-management questions it forces.
Dec 2025
Field note
Board-level AI literacy in 90 minutes.
What we cover, what we cut, and why most board education on AI is still calibrated for the wrong decade.