Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Mapping Architecture to Outcomes
The CEO doesn't care about your system design. They care about what it enables.
Read →Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt
The app your business team built in a week will cost IT six months to fix.
Read →The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates
The CFO asked for the ROI of data. Nobody could answer.
Read →The Architecture Conversation CEOs Avoid
The architecture conversation CEOs avoid is the one they need most.
Read →When Your Customer Data Lives in 47 Places
Your customer data lives in 47 places. None of them agree.
Read →AI Governance - Why 82% Are Scrambling
Your board wants AI. Your teams are building AI. Your governance? Still stuck in 2019.
Read →Cloud Cost Shock - $100B in Waste
Global enterprises waste $100 billion annually on cloud. Your share is probably 20-40%.
Read →Data Quality Crisis - 77% Admit Failure
Everyone is in data. But only one team gets the blame when it breaks.
Read →Data Quality as Organizational Signal
Bad data doesn't come from bad systems. It comes from broken ownership.
Read →We Hired a 10x Developer. Then We Lost the Team
We hired a 10x developer. Then we lost the team.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.