Tactical AI Guides & Procurement Frameworks
Clear, practitioner-focused guides to help technical leaders, developers, and organizations evaluate, procure, and integrate artificial intelligence effectively.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
A comprehensive technical explainer of transformers, attention mechanisms, loss functions, and inference compute.
How to Choose an AI Tool
A 7-step decision framework for assessing workflow fit, data governance, SOC 2 compliance, and total cost of ownership.
How to Evaluate AI Models
A guide to running private evaluations: prompt stress testing, measuring latency per token, and catching hallucinations.
More guides
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How to read an intelligent-software evaluation
What a trustworthy evaluation shows, what to check before relying on a score, and the warning signs of one that is not.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min read
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Vendor claims vs. verified findings
How we label evidence, and why a vendor's statement about its own product is never treated as a result.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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Hosted vs. self-managed deployment: questions to ask
A neutral list of questions that expose the real trade-offs between vendor-hosted and self-managed intelligent software.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min read
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Choosing a coding assistant: what to test in your own code
A practical way to trial AI coding tools on your own repositories before you rely on published comparisons.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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A procurement evidence checklist for intelligent software
The facts to pin down before accepting any security, compliance, or authorization claim about a specific product.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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What is an AI coding agent, and how is it different from an assistant?
A plain-language definition, what an agent can touch, and what to check before giving one access to your repository.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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Questions to ask about AI data retention and training
Five questions that expose what happens to your data in any AI tool, and how to get answers you can rely on.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to read a vendor security page
Separate what a vendor states from what is evidenced, and spot the claims that should be treated as unverified.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to trial an AI research or writing tool fairly
A repeatable method for testing non-coding AI tools on your own work before you rely on them.
Adam Green · Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read