FAI Newsletter

FAI Newsletter

Decision Quality

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From Trace to Behavior: Instrumenting the Signals That Matter

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

From Trace to Behavior: Instrumenting the Signals That Matter

What to capture when a bad AI decision doesn't throw an error.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

+7

The Solo-Team AI Reliability Stack: What to Instrument First post

Aug 20, 2026

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6 min read

The Solo-Team AI Reliability Stack: What to Instrument First post

Bad AI decisions don't throw errors. Five layers of instrumentation, in the order they earn their keep, for teams running production AI with no ML engineer.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson
Catching Wasted Spend: A Practical AI Cost Audit

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

Catching Wasted Spend: A Practical AI Cost Audit

A cost fix changes what the work costs. It doesn't change how much work the system decides to do. Four checks for finding out where your savings actually went.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

+7

Evaluating AI Behavior Tools: A Buyer's Checklist

Aug 6, 2026

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6 min read

Evaluating AI Behavior Tools: A Buyer's Checklist

Five questions to put to any tool in a category that hasn't standardized yet, and the one artifact that makes a demo tell you something: an incident you already solved.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson

Decision Quality

+6

Putting a Number on a Bad AI Decision: A Cost-of-Error Worksheet

Jul 30, 2026

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5 min read

Putting a Number on a Bad AI Decision: A Cost-of-Error Worksheet

Six places a bad decision spends money, a worksheet to find as many of them as you actually can, and an honest field for the one you can't.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson
De-Risking the Pilot: An Applied Checklist for Getting AI to Production

Jul 23, 2026

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4 min read

De-Risking the Pilot: An Applied Checklist for Getting AI to Production

Four gates to run before the go/no-go meeting, using the pilot you already have. No new platform required.

Jamal Jackson
Jamal Jackson
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