What a board should ask before approving a major AI investment.
The eight questions that separate a plan with evidence behind it from a plan with enthusiasm behind it, and what a good answer to each one sounds like.
Insights
Roughly one substantial piece a month, on the decisions boards, counsel, and investors actually have to make. No news commentary, and no volume for its own sake.
What we publish
AI Decision Briefs
Short senior analyses of consequential AI decisions, written for directors, executives, and the advisors around them.
Applied R&D
Findings from the work behind OOMU: local and cloud economics, agentic workflow design, human approval, model routing, and extensibility through Mods.
Policy and enterprise notes
Analysis connecting AI policy to operational consequence, rather than restating what a proposal says.
What we write about
These are the pieces in progress. None of them is published yet. If one of these questions is live for you right now, that is a good reason to get in touch before it is.
The eight questions that separate a plan with evidence behind it from a plan with enthusiasm behind it, and what a good answer to each one sounds like.
The cases where automating a workflow makes the organization slower, more fragile, or harder to defend, even when the technology works exactly as promised.
Why provisions that read as modest can require rearchitecting a system that serves a dozen countries, and why some sweeping language changes almost nothing.
Where routing work to hardware an organization already owns actually pays, measured against what frontier models are worth on the tasks that need them.
What the published numbers usually measure, what they leave out, and how to test a productivity claim against your own operating data.
The properties that distinguish a system which can be trusted with real work from one that performs well in a controlled thirty-minute presentation.
Private briefs
Alongside what we publish, Eldris circulates one private decision brief a month to a small group of senior contacts: directors, general counsel, government relations leaders, investors, and the partners who refer matters to us.
It goes to people, not to a list. If that would be useful to you, say so and we will add you.