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Interactive Tool · Compliance

EU AI Act + GDPR Product Assessor

Screen a product against the EU AI Act and GDPR in a few minutes and generate an auditable gap report with legal references — a self-assessment tool, not a substitute for legal advice.

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Field Notes · System Architecture

The most successful AI systems use the least AI

Humans, rules, machine learning or generative AI — choosing where AI belongs is an engineering trade-off across accuracy, cost, complexity and risk. A CXO-level framework, with a decision tree and where projects actually die.

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Briefing · AI Infrastructure

Training large language models: a briefing for European leaders

What pre-training, post-training and evaluation actually involve — and what they mean for compute investment, data governance and talent decisions in Ireland and the EU.

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CXO Guide · Machine Learning

Machine learning, minus the mystique

What machine learning actually is, where it earns money in a 20–250 person European business, what a first project really costs, and what the EU rulebook asks of you as it stands in August 2026.

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Research Note · Strategy

Build, buy, or partner

Where deep-tech AI startups should own the stack, where they should rent it, and where ownership has quietly stopped being an option. Covers cost dynamics, regulatory obligations, licence-and-hire structures, and decision protocols.

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White Paper · Manufacturing

Optimising fabrication for cost and delivery

How AI, machine learning and software engineering can cut avoidable cost and shorten lead times for Irish and EU metal fabricators — with a reference architecture and a 90-day pilot plan.

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Field Notes · Enterprise AI

Two disciplines, one goal: lowering AI risk

How AI governance and security differ, what each one guards against, and how to combine them into a single layered defence.

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Practical Guide · 2026

GDPR & the new rules of data

A plain-English handbook for SMEs — and how the AI Act, Data Act and a wave of new regulation now sit on top of it.

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