Field Notes

Notes from the frontier

Notes on capturing expert judgment and training models that learn from it, with live demos you can poke at.

sovereigntystrategy

Tacit and AI Sovereignty: Owning the Translation Layer

Defining AI sovereignty as owning the entire AI stack makes it sound impossible for New Zealand. This is the wrong definition. Sovereignty lives in the translation layer between foundation models and trusted real-world deployment.

Alex DongJune 10, 20263 min read
tacit-knowledgestrategy

What Is Tacit Knowledge?

Your best people make calls the manual can't explain. That judgment has a name - tacit knowledge - and it was learned through reps, not reading. It is the most valuable asset on your payroll, it walks out the door when people do, and it is the one training corpus your competitors cannot buy.

Joe ColeMay 11, 20263 min read