The article series
The digital thread problem is not actually a digital thread problem
Why the industry's most-promised outcome keeps not arriving, and what it would actually take
AI-assisted engineering has a context problem, not a model problem
Why the copilots arriving in engineering tools will disappoint, and what they would actually need to stand on
When the chief engineer retires, the data model does not notice
Engineering's most valuable data is the data nobody manages
You will probably not replace your PLM, and that is fine
The replacement question has a twenty-year track record. The interesting question is what to build on top of the current installation instead.
The primitives your organisation actually needs
Seven primitives is the architecture's full extent, not its minimum dose. With these five drivers you can decide the correct prescription.
A thirty-minute instrument for a thirty-year problem
The book's diagnostic is now an interactive page. This is how to read it, why its targets sit where they do, and why it will sometimes tell you to relax.
The hard part was never the code
The federation layer from the book now runs: four demonstrations, seven schemas, under a thousand lines of code. It is the smallness that proves the argument.