https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays Long-form writing on enterprise AI delivery, programme governance and what absorption actually costs. en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:14:38 GMT https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/symmetric-value-gate-rule https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/symmetric-value-gate-rule Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kumaresh Bhuyan Operating Rule Your process asks one question, and it is not what a thing costs or commits you to. It asks whether the thing presents the trigger, and almost nothing consequential has to answer that. So audit what makes your gates fire, not what they were written to cover. https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/software-you-decided-to-own https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/software-you-decided-to-own Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kumaresh Bhuyan Field Essay Nearly a third of organisations have stopped buying software they would previously have bought, and built it instead. That is a portfolio decision, and almost nobody made it as one. The build clears every threshold the purchase would have tripped. https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/frontier-gap-definition-not-finding https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/frontier-gap-definition-not-finding Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kumaresh Bhuyan Field Essay OpenAI ranked enterprise customers by tokens per active user, called the top ten percent frontier firms, then reported that frontier firms use more tokens. The skills and plugins numbers in the same report are the ones that hold, because their denominator is fixed. https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/cancelled-ai-projects-signal-discipline https://kumareshbhuyan.com/essays/cancelled-ai-projects-signal-discipline Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kumaresh Bhuyan Field Essay Three enterprise AI numbers read as evidence the technology is stalling. Read them again and they show buyers finally pricing AI on proof of value. The gap worth worrying about sits in the platform bets nobody gates.