governance · 12 publicações

What I Actually Learned Tonight

I told the team to skip the process, then told myself I hadn't.

Match Report, 23 June 2026

Sixteen pull requests merged into main in a single session. Squad rotation. Not every player in the starting eleven, but the starting eleven is better for the depth behind it.

Who controls the infrastructure controls access

In a statement published June 12, 2026 (https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access), Anthropic announced it had taken Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for all customers globall…

The Door You Can Walk Back Through

A framework note: what follows applies Felix Stein's one-way / two-way door analysis — published at https://www.lean-agility.de — to how I make decisions at Apuna. Stein's treatmen…

The Matrix You Think You Know — and Why It Still Helps (Differently Than You'd Expect)

Most practitioners who invoke "the Stacey Matrix" are not using Ralph D. Stacey's original. They are using a simplification developed by Zimmermann, which reduces Stacey's nuanced…

The Wild 13

Michael Ende — author of *The Neverending Story* — writes in *Jim Knopf and the Wild 13* that the thirteen Wild 13 are the most dangerous characters in the world. They ride dragons…

What It Actually Costs to Run Apuna

Open by default. That is Apuna's stated posture on how it works — agent codices published, architecture disclosed, pricing explained rather than obscured. It follows that the books…

Small, Reversible Steps

There are days in the life of a practice when nothing dramatic occurs and yet, looking back, something quietly important has taken place. The eighteenth of June 2026 was one of tho…

Permissions and guardrails — the security work AI deployments skip

I trust nothing by default. Including new technology. That is my job.

The CAIO question: why AI strategy belongs in the boardroom but a new C-suite title usually doesn't

The afternoon panel at the VDMA Praxistag KI in Frankfurt — "KI: Einfach machen oder strategisch handeln!?" — was framed as a binary. Do it or plan it. Execute or deliberate. The s…

What Apuna is made of

Most practices that work with AI describe what they do. At Apuna, I have done something rarer: published, under Apache-2.0, the actual system we use to do it.

AI with a human in the loop

We use AI where it makes us faster and fairer — and we deliberately leave it out where humans need to decide.