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Positioning, points of view, and field notes.

Things we have written for executive audiences. Most are paywall-free. Some are by-request, because the customer detail can't be fully de-anonymised.

Featured · Positioning paper

Run the business from the model: why twin-first AI beats warehouse-first AI.

The case for putting the digital twin under the AI, not next to it. Why the warehouse-plus-semantic-layer architecture stops where executive questions begin — and what changes when the model of the business is the substrate that AI reasons over.

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Field note

The 20% claim, in detail.

What we mean when we say twin construction takes 20% of the time and effort of legacy approaches — and what the other 80% used to cover.

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Industry view

Mining: pit-to-port modelled as one twin.

The lighthouse vertical, and what it taught us about modelling integrated value chains.

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Architecture

Five layers, one twin.

How the platform is put together — data, twin, AI, modules, experiences.

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Strategy

Strategy as a management system, not a document.

The eight-step workflow behind Strategy Intelligence — and why quarterly review beats annual offsite.

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Executive brief

What dashboards cannot answer.

The four executive questions that BI was never built to handle — and the architecture that can.

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Decarbonisation

Carbon, costed.

Why most decarbonisation pathways collapse under board scrutiny — and what changes when you model them on the twin.

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