Most companies don’t have a technology problem. They have a decision-making problem.

I’ve spent 30 years helping leadership teams evaluate technology decisions before they get expensive, and diagnosing the ones that already have.

D.Sc. Information Systems · CTO · Fortune 500 to Series A

Eric D. Brown
Latest essays · Tuesdays
Oct 27, 2026
Brilliant in the Basics

AI output reads clean whether it's right or not. Leaders can only check work whose basics they still know. Mattis's …

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Oct 20, 2026
The Insider Problem

JPMorgan blocked outside AI agents and Microsoft says to trust the model least. Before an AI agent spreads, decide how …

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Oct 13, 2026
Where the New Ideas in AI Are Showing Up

The AI builder feed is full of clones and tooling. The new ideas are in drug trials, weather models, classrooms and …

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Consulting

I take on a small number of consulting engagements — typically for leadership teams facing a technology decision they can’t afford to get wrong.

“Should we build this?”
AI & technology evaluation
“What are we missing?”
Technical due diligence
“Why isn’t this working?”
Initiative diagnosis
“Is it still working?”
Quality & performance measurement
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