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On AI agents, project execution, and what actually works — from people who did the work manually first.

AI & Project Delivery · July 2026 · 7 min

We keep solving Australia's productivity problem the wrong way

Project execution productivity has hit a wall, and the instinctive fixes — add people, move work offshore, add reviewers — keep making it worse. There's a better place to start.

AI & Engineering · Feb 2026 · 6 min

AI in Engineering: Finding the Right Balance

AI is neither magic nor useless in engineering. The real value lies in combining deterministic engineering systems with AI orchestration.

AI Fundamentals · Oct 2025 · 5 min

What Is an AI Agent? A Practical Definition for Engineers

Strip away the hype: an AI agent is a language model with access to tools. That definition is enough to reason clearly about what agents can and cannot do.

AI Engineering · Sept 2025 · 5 min

Why Simpler Agent Architectures Can Win (When the Data Is Right)

Agent performance is driven less by architectural complexity and more by prompt clarity, context management, tool design, and data quality.

AI & Project Delivery · Sept 2025 · 5 min

From Document Chaos to Structured Intelligence in EPC Projects

Distributed EPC teams don't lack capability — they lack structured, consistent interpretation of requirements. Agentic AI can fix that.

AI & Engineering · Aug 2025 · 6 min

The Sea Is Rising — Learn to Swim

Generative AI is shifting engineers from task execution to system direction. The ones who can define problems clearly will build faster, test earlier, and stop waiting on development cycles.