Insights

Perspectives, references and research

Practical writing from our delivery teams on data, models and decisions.

Blog directory

Practical perspectives from our delivery teams.

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Why decisions, not dashboards, are the unit of analytics value

Analytics programmes are often measured by what they produce. A better measure is which decisions they change.

Decision Science · 5 min read

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A practical guide to evaluating AI use cases before building

Four questions that separate promising AI ideas from expensive experiments.

Artificial Intelligence · 6 min read

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Feature stores, lakehouses and the unglamorous work behind reliable ML

Most model failures in production are data problems. Here is how to prevent the common ones.

Data Engineering · 6 min read

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Agentic AI in the enterprise: where autonomy helps and where it should not

A framework for deciding how much freedom an AI agent should be given.

Agentic AI · 7 min read

White papers

Longer reference documents on architecture and method.

White paper

A reference architecture for decision intelligence

Layers, interfaces and responsibilities for systems that manage recurring decisions end to end.

Decision Intelligence · 12 min read

White paper

MLOps maturity: a staged model for production machine learning

Five stages from notebooks to continuously monitored and governed model services.

MLOps · 10 min read

Case study scenarios

Illustrative scenarios showing how an approach would work.

Case study scenarioIllustrative

Illustrative scenario: forecasting demand across a multi-region retailer

How a hierarchical forecasting approach could be applied. This is a hypothetical scenario, not a client engagement.

Retail · 6 min read

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Illustrative scenario: reducing false positives in transaction monitoring

A hypothetical description of prioritising alerts for investigators. No client or result is implied.

Banking and Capital Markets · 6 min read

Research articles

Technical notes on evaluation and methodology.

Research article

Evaluating retrieval-augmented generation beyond answer accuracy

Separating retrieval quality, grounding and answer quality to diagnose where a system fails.

Generative AI · 9 min read

Research article

Communicating forecast uncertainty to decision makers

Ranges, scenarios and probabilities: which representations help people make better choices.

Machine Learning · 8 min read

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