Insights
Written by people who do the work.
We write about what we have built, what we got wrong and what we would do again. Several pieces come from our asset management practice, where this work began. The lessons travel.
Featured: the masterclass
Less Hype, More Real AI Please
Presented at MAINSTREAM 2026, this 90 minute masterclass makes one argument: treat AI as a tool, finite and fit for purpose, bought for the outcome it delivers.
It covers a three point test for any AI vendor, three live demonstrations, and the eight area readiness model that the check on this site is built on.
The test. Does it hit the specification? What does it cost? Who owns the judgement?
Where to begin
Three pieces for a business starting out.
- Five signs you are ready for AI (opens in a new tab)Most organisations are not as ready as they think. Five honest signs, none of them about technology.
- What happened in AI this year, and what did not (opens in a new tab)Data science, machine learning or AI: which one does your organisation need? A practical review.
- The roles AI threatens, and the ones it does not (opens in a new tab)A practitioner's line through the question, drawn by the structure of the task and not the job title.
Sovereignty
Keeping information where it belongs.
Delivered work
Case studies, in full.
- Sorting thousands of documents before a review (opens in a new tab)How a document pipeline saved weeks of manual reading, and what stayed with the assessors.
- What 3,126 job records taught us (opens in a new tab)A real maintenance history put through a classifier, and the failures nobody had listed.
These articles are published on the SAS Asset Management site and open in a new tab.
Next
Find out where you stand.
The readiness check takes three minutes and asks for no details. You get an honest result straight away.