The Coordination Collapse — white paper cover

The Coordination Collapse

Why AI didn't cause the layoffs. It just made them impossible to justify avoiding.

Every productivity shift in the history of organised work has followed the same sequence: a new capability appears, the coordination infrastructure that existed to manage the old way of working becomes visible as overhead, and it is removed. The telephone switchboard. The typing pool. The ledger clerk. The dispatch coordinator. This paper traces that arc through the present moment — where AI is exposing the coordination layer in software engineering as the same kind of artefact — and lays out what engineering leaders should be doing now, not when the cuts have already happened to them.

May 2026 12 pages PDF · 76 KB
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The Dependency Debt — white paper cover

The Dependency Debt

What your package manager isn't telling you about supply chain risk

Every dependency you add is a trust decision — you import not just code but the security posture and maintenance discipline of everyone who contributed to that package, and to its transitive dependencies. The software industry has spent a decade pretending otherwise. This paper documents the supply chain attacks that have hit npm, PyPI, RubyGems and Go, quantifies the debt large dependency trees create, and lays out a low-dependency decision framework for teams who want to stop importing risk by reflex.

May 2026 20 pages PDF · 102 KB
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The Legacy VB6 Threat — white paper cover

The Legacy VB6 Threat

Why Classic Visual Basic applications are your network's weakest link

Classic Visual Basic applications are still everywhere — running stock management, order processing, and job scheduling on a stack that hasn't received meaningful security investment in over a decade. TIOBE puts VB6 at position 21 in May 2026, ahead of Kotlin and Dart. This paper explains why patching and firewalling can't fix the underlying problem, documents the specific attacks that have exploited the stack, and quantifies the regulatory and breach exposure that falls hardest on SMEs.

May 2026 17 pages PDF · 87 KB
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