Insights

Judgment, in writing.

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

Three kinds of writing.

AI Decision Briefs

For the people who have to decide

Short senior analyses of consequential AI decisions, written for directors, executives, and the advisors around them.

Applied R&D

What we learn building

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

What a rule does inside a company

Analysis connecting AI policy to operational consequence, rather than restating what a proposal says.

What we write about

The questions we keep being asked.

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.

AI Decision Brief

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.

AI Decision Brief

When an enterprise should reject an AI automation proposal.

The cases where automating a workflow makes the organization slower, more fragile, or harder to defend, even when the technology works exactly as promised.

Policy and enterprise note

What policymakers misunderstand about enterprise AI operations.

Why provisions that read as modest can require rearchitecting a system that serves a dozen countries, and why some sweeping language changes almost nothing.

Applied R&D

When local AI changes the economics of a workflow.

Where routing work to hardware an organization already owns actually pays, measured against what frontier models are worth on the tasks that need them.

AI Decision Brief

How to evaluate claims of AI-driven workforce productivity.

What the published numbers usually measure, what they leave out, and how to test a productivity claim against your own operating data.

Applied R&D

How to tell a real agentic system from an expensive automation demo.

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

A monthly note for senior contacts.

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.

Have a harder version of one of these questions?

Eldris Senior AI judgment for decisions that matter.