01Design

Agent Backup System: recoverable state for autonomous agents

A reference design for capturing agent state through MCP or an API, then restoring it into a controlled runtime after failure, migration, or operator intervention.

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02Optimise

Quantisation: fitting useful models into local hardware

A practical guide to the trade-offs between high-precision weights, Q8, Q4_K_M, IQ2_XXS, and ternary models on consumer hardware.

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03Secure

Agent Sandboxes: test capability before granting trust

A security-focused approach to testing what an agent can actually do, with real isolation, default-deny networking, safe fixtures, supervised runs, and evidence that shows when a boundary holds.

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04Build

Designing agentic systems that can be trusted

Agentic systems need bounded responsibilities, useful tools, and a clear answer for what happens when the model is wrong.

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05Transform

Designing an AI-first operating model

Restructuring around AI is an operating decision: it changes processes, team responsibilities, tooling, and culture together.

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06Evaluate

Reliability is a system property

Evaluation gives a team the evidence needed to measure, monitor, and improve an AI system in production.

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07Rationalise

Deciding when to reduce or replace AI

AI rationalisation is a practical review of cost, reliability, compliance risk, and whether a language model is the right tool at all.

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08Transact

Agentic commerce needs authority boundaries, not just a wallet

Giving an agent a way to pay is easy. Defining its authority, smart-contract controls, and what happens after settlement is the real systems work.

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