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08Insights

Briefings on AI sourcing, procurement, and risk.

Concise, procurement-oriented, no hype. Editorial content exists to make buyers sharper—not to sell anything.

01Featured

Briefings a buyer can actually use.

These are working notes, not a blog. Request the full piece in a 15-minute briefing—no drip, no cadence theater.

Procurement Notes

On request

How institutions should structure AI vendor shortlists

A practical framework for moving from capability marketing to a defensible shortlist—dimensions, weighting, and the questions that separate providers.

Full note available on request in a confidential briefing.

Buyer Briefs

On request

What buyers should request before an AI pilot

The documentation, data-handling terms, and evaluation criteria that should precede any pilot commitment—structured for procurement teams.

Full note available on request in a confidential briefing.

AI Risk

On request

AI procurement risks that appear after the demo

Drift, support vacuums, integration debt, and vendor continuity—risks that surface post-selection and how to structure against them.

Full note available on request in a confidential briefing.

02Categories

Four lines of editorial work.

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Procurement Notes

Frameworks, documentation, and process for AI buying.

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AI Risk

Failure modes, diligence dimensions, and mitigations.

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Market Maps

Capability landscapes across AI software categories.

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Buyer Briefs

Practical guidance written for institutional decision-makers.

03Briefing signup

The PDSCOMM Briefing.

Occasional, substantive, and infrequent. When there is something worth saying, it arrives. No cadence theater.

04Editorial standards

The rules of this publication.

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    Concise and procurement-oriented; no hype, no vendor theater.

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    Claims are grounded in observable process and documentation practice.

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    Specific engagements are published only with client consent, in anonymized form.

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    Editorial content is not marketing—it exists to make buyers sharper.

Beyond editorial

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