Brad Curtis writes about enterprise technology, software architecture and engineering, with explanations of architecture roles and commentary on current events such as the CrowdStrike outage and enterprise use of AI agents. Readers get practitioner-oriented analysis that avoids jargon and poses practical questions for customers and vendors.
Website: https://bradcurtis.com/
A sporadic technical blog on governing AI agents, covering gateway-based enforcement, MCP tool-call governance and audit trails, drawing on real failures and a demo built around the RNLI. Readers get first-person engineering lessons on where controls belong and why true status reports can still hide broken systems.
Essays on strategy, enterprise architecture and AI for Australian business leaders, grounded in regulation, research and management theory. Readers get analysis connecting topics like privacy law changes, AI commoditisation and cognitive bias to practical decision-making.
Decision Crafters publishes architecture analysis for leaders deciding on AI and platform systems, with a focus on separating state, capability, authority, execution and evidence. Each issue offers named frameworks, such as a control plane model, a four-part claim labelling method and an eight-dimension review checklist, for judging whether an agentic system is safe to trust in production.
Digital Formati analyzes AI agent governance, enterprise architecture and ServiceNow strategy, with a focus on federal programs and integrators. Issues unpack vendor reference architectures, government audit findings and governance patterns in plain business terms.
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