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Enterprise AI Strategy 14 min read

AI Vendor Security Questionnaire: 33 Questions With Good Answers, Red Flags and Scoring

A question bank for assessing AI suppliers before their product touches your data, in eleven domains from model training and retention to agent permissions, EU AI Act role and exit. Each question comes with what a good answer looks like and the red flags, grounded in NIST AI RMF and its Generative AI Profile, ISO/IEC 42001, the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026 and the CSA AI Controls Matrix, followed by a scoring method.

#AI procurement#AI security#AI governance
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A scientific calculator and a mechanical pencil resting on handwritten sums, the kind of seat-cost arithmetic behind an enterprise AI subscription
Enterprise AI Economics 12 min read

Claude Enterprise Pricing in 2026: Seat Fees, Usage at API Rates and Private AI

Anthropic now sells Claude Enterprise as a $20 seat with every token billed on top, while Claude Team keeps a fixed seat price with usage included up to limits. This guide sets out both price lists as checked on 14 October 2026, how Claude Code is billed on each plan, what 250 and 1,000 seats cost in a year, and how the costs of a private deployment are structured instead.

#AI platform pricing#AI platform TCO#AI procurement
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AI Infrastructure 12 min read

Best Local Image Generation Models (2026): Picks by VRAM, Mac and Licence

Open-weight text-to-image models you can run on your own GPU or Mac in October 2026, checked against their Hugging Face cards and licence files: parameters, commercial-use terms (several are non-commercial or capped by revenue), official memory guidance and file sizes, and support in ComfyUI, Diffusers, Mac apps and Ollama.

#image generation#open-weight models#local AI hardware
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Software Development 13 min read

Claude Code Local LLM Setup: Ollama, LM Studio and llama.cpp (2026)

How to point Claude Code at a model running on your own machine through the Anthropic-compatible endpoints in Ollama, LM Studio and llama.cpp, checked against each project's documentation on 14 October 2026. Covers the exact environment variables, context and tool-calling requirements, Windows, bridges such as Claude Code Router and LiteLLM, what stops working without a Claude model, and the settings that keep code and telemetry on the machine.

#Claude Code#local LLM#Ollama
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AI Agent Orchestration 13 min read

Dify vs n8n vs Flowise vs Langflow: Licences, Self-Hosting and Agents (2026)

Dify, n8n, Flowise and Langflow all put a visual canvas in front of language models, but they differ on licence, ownership, what the free self-hosted edition leaves out, and whether anyone still maintains the project. Checked against each project's LICENSE file, documentation, release history and pricing page on 14 October 2026.

#workflow automation#AI agent frameworks#agent orchestration
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AI Compliance 10 min read

EU AI Act Education Rules: High-Risk AI in Schools, Universities and Vocational Training

AI that decides admission, grades work that counts, sets the level a learner can reach or watches students during tests is high-risk under Annex III point 3 of the EU AI Act, with obligations from 2 December 2027, and emotion recognition in schools and universities has been banned since February 2025. A use-by-use table covering admissions, grading, proctoring, plagiarism checks, adaptive tutoring and student chatbots, and what schools, universities and training providers must do as deployers.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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AI Compliance 13 min read

EU AI Act Fines and Penalties: Article 99 Tiers, SME Caps and Worked Examples

Article 99 of the AI Act sets three ceilings: up to €35 million or 7% of worldwide annual turnover for prohibited practices, €15 million or 3% for breaches of operator and transparency duties, and €7.5 million or 1% for misleading information. How the SME and small mid-cap caps work after the Digital Omnibus, who imposes fines and from when, the Commission's separate powers over model providers, and worked examples for four company sizes.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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AI Compliance 13 min read

EU AI Act for US Companies: When It Applies, Which Role You Hold and First Steps

The EU AI Act reaches US companies that sell AI systems or general-purpose models into the EU, that use AI through an office or subsidiary there, or whose AI output is used in the EU. A plain-English guide to the territorial scope in Article 2, the roles that decide your obligations, when a US provider needs an authorized representative in the EU, the dates as amended by the Digital Omnibus, the fines, and what to do first.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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AI Compliance 13 min read

FRIA Template: EU AI Act Article 27 Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment, Worked Example

A fundamental rights impact assessment template built on the six elements that Article 27(1) of the EU AI Act requires, with guiding questions and a filled-in entry for a fictional municipal benefits system. It also covers who must carry out a FRIA, when it falls due after the Digital Omnibus, whether the AI Office has published its own template, and how much of a GDPR DPIA you can reuse.

#EU AI Act#AI compliance#AI governance
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Enterprise AI Economics 11 min read

Gemini Enterprise Pricing in 2026: Business, Standard and Plus Editions vs Private AI

Google publishes Gemini Enterprise prices in its Cloud SKU catalogue rather than on the product page: $21, $30 and $50 per user a month for the Business, Standard and Plus editions on annual terms. This guide sets out every edition with monthly, euro and rupee prices, the quotas and overage charges, what Workspace plans already include, annual costs for 250 and 1,000 users, and how the costs of a private deployment are structured instead, as checked on 14 October 2026.

#AI platform pricing#AI platform TCO#AI procurement
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