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Research

What we are learning, written down.

Field notes on data, AI, security and growth, and what they mean for the people making decisions this quarter. New pieces land one at a time.

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Data & AI

AI in the travel industry: your ticket to transformation

Travel roared back to $10.9T and six in ten execs are betting on AI. The winners will be the ones whose data is ready for it.

6 min read · 16 July 2026
Data & AI

Data layovers: the hidden cost of systems that do not talk

Four touchpoints, and your systems still cannot see all four. Fragmentation, not technology, is the real drag on the travel experience.

3 min read · 17 July 2026
Growth

Signal blindness: the revenue you lose by not listening

Every signal said quiet luxury for two. The system sent adventure tours and a beachfront hotel two miles inland.

3 min read · 18 July 2026
Data & AI

One trip, many systems: closing third-party blind spots

To the customer it is one journey. A four-hour delay reveals how many disconnected systems it really is.

3 min read · 21 July 2026
Culture

AI will not replace your people. Not upskilling them will.

Even the slickest AI deployment cannot save your margins if your team does not know how to work with it.

3 min read · 22 July 2026
Culture

The AI-ESG paradox: accelerator or wrecking ball?

Training one model can emit as much carbon as 300 New York to San Francisco flights. Whether AI helps or harms your ESG goals comes down to intent and governance.

3 min read · 23 July 2026
Data Architecture

Your AI is only as strong as the data beneath it

92% of companies are increasing AI investment. Only 1% are ‘mature’. The gap is data architecture, not models.

4 min read · 23 July 2026
Data Architecture

Clean data connections for smarter investment decisions

How connected data turns guesswork into confident calls.

Coming soon
Data Architecture

A five-step framework for AI-ready data

The sequence we run to get a data estate ready for AI.

Coming soon
Data Architecture

Tackling limited data visibility

When you cannot see your data, you cannot trust it. Here is the fix.

Coming soon
Security

Where AI widens your attack surface

Every integration and model is a new door. What to lock first.

Coming soon
Search

What it takes to show up in an AI answer

SEO gets you ranked. AEO and GEO get you cited. Here is the difference, and the method.

Coming soon
Culture

Upskilling your people for an AI-powered era

The best AI strategy fails if your people are not on board. A field guide to bringing them with you.

Coming soon

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