Cross at a Ford
Crossing at a ford means, for example, crossing the sea at a strait, or crossing over a hundred miles of broad sea at a crossing place. I believe this crossing at a ford occurs often in a person’s lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The agentic era of technology
1990s — 2000s
Protocols
Availability means uptime. The community developed open standards to meet the challenge of unreliable parts; UDP → TCP.
2010s
Platforms
Trust requires confidentiality. To trust an online bank, or an e-commerce merchant, the community developed standards for encryption and logins.
2020s —
Agents
Agentic systems must be integrous. As digital systems gain capabilities, the community needs new standards and tools to safeguard individual and group interests.
While technology changes, the principles of strategy endure.
Conventional leadership focuses on goals.
Complexity asks us to attend to the interconnections.
We help with
Narrative understandingApplying the principles of anthropology to connect decision makers with customers and constituents.
Software R&DBuilding applications for mobile, web or desktop — built to scale and designed with an attention to detail.
Data engineering & visualizationFrom geo and network visualization to ML and AI engineering. We develop reliable systems to support insight and situational awareness.