Insights
Technical public work. Not a thought-leadership blog.
Operators who already burned money on a prototype find HIVE here. Evidence over demos.
Cornerstone
Knolo
Vector-only RAG is not evidence
Nearest-neighbor search is a retrieval trick. Evidence is a source you can name, a permission that traveled with it, and a hash you can recompute.
9 min read · 2026-08-26
Commercial
Unpaid pilots are a failure mode, not a sales motion
Why HIVE starts with a scoped 5-day Bootcamp on real data instead of a free workshop that might convert.
8 min read · 2026-08-26
Privacy
Private by default is an architecture, not a policy paragraph
On-prem, VPC, and air-gap are product shapes. Data residency cannot be a week-before-launch checkbox.
8 min read · 2026-08-26
Agents
Approval paths are the product
An agent that can write, send, or file without a gate is a demo. Traces, evals, and human approvals are the system.
8 min read · 2026-08-26
Retrieval
Your RAG system is probably a search problem wearing an AI costume
5 min read
Agents
Agents need guardrails, not motivational posters
4 min read
Production systems
Production AI in 2026 is mostly plumbing. Sorry.
6 min read
Privacy
Running US AI work from Europe changes the privacy conversation
5 min read
Commercial
A senior practice needs fewer wasted meetings
3 min read
Production systems
Before you hire an AI vendor, make them answer these questions
4 min read