Journal

Field notes from inside the audit.

Short essays on small-business automation, AI governance in practice, and the gap between "we use AI" and a system that actually survives a regulator's look.

Field notes · 2026-04-20

The EU AI Act August math.

August 2, 2026 is not one deadline. It is five, stacked in the same week. The one most SMBs are going to miss isn't the one the law firms are writing about.

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Field notes · 2026-04-20

I ran 12 AI audits this quarter. Here's what every one of them failed on.

Twelve audits across agencies, contractors, clinics, and two e-commerce brands. One failure pattern showed up in every single report. Nobody saw it coming, and it is the one thing the EU AI Act will land on first.

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