Tensile journal
Ideas from working on consequential AI: why confident answers fail, how environments change the result, and what counts as evidence that the job is done.
From the engineering field notes
Original publication dates are retained. Earlier articles include historical perspectives on transformation, governance and evaluation.
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Why a long agent session needs an investigation of its tool actions, state and evidence—not just a verdict on the final response.
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A resource version of the PE-portco AI audit pattern: visibility, unauthorized MCP paths, sanctioned-tool cadence, and board-ready evidence.
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An 8-layer operating read for finding unmanaged MCP servers, agent connectors, OAuth grants, and AI delegation risk before the board asks.
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How finance leaders can separate real AI governance risk from fear-selling by asking for measurement, materiality, traces, thresholds, and operating evidence.
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A finance operating view on where AI agent gateways help, where they miss release, representation, and training-time failures, and why visibility and evaluation come before control.
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Why agents can take on execution but cannot take on responsibility, and why finance firms need an independent AI audit seat that can produce board-reliable evidence.
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What Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index implies for measuring workforce AI fluency inside finance firms.
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Why AI workflows fail when buyer risk tolerance, downstream authority, and measurement are misaligned, plus a two-question diagnostic for finance leaders.
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A golden record is a master-data-management concept. A golden dataset is an AI-evaluation concept. Here is the one-minute version of how to tell them apart.
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Why AI budgets in banks get approved but fail to produce business outcomes, and how finance leaders can change the reward function.
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Best AI solutions for financial risk management in 2026: what to ask of any vendor, and how to keep the AI agents in your risk workflows reliable in production.
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Why seats, sessions, and tool counts do not prove AI is working, and why finance AI programs need continuous evaluation before governance becomes defensible.
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A joint Tensile and Accorian framework on control drift, runtime detection, autonomy budgets and production evidence.
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Bring the customer job, the expected result and the evidence your team would accept.
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AI reliability, from production to customer outcome.