Insights
Short, dated analysis for the people who have to answer for AI — written against the same control set the Ballast benchmark scores you on.
PracticeDigitalOcean Managed Agents brings execution, sessions, tools, permissions and runtime evidence into one service. The assurance question is whether that makes agent behaviour easier to govern, or concentrates too much trust in one provider.
23 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Why it matters
A short, dated briefing grounded in the same control set as the Ballast benchmark — designed to turn regulatory change into a practical next step.
PracticeA practical guide to testing AI decisions with Vercel AI SDK, Jev and eve. Build a small agent, generate risk-focused evals, gate releases and keep the results as evidence.
17 Sept 2026 · 18 min read
PracticeA working model answers whether the system can run. An evidence record answers whether the organisation can defend running it — and that is the project milestone regulators are moving toward.
15 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
PracticeDario Amodei's 12 September essay is being read as a slowdown. If you have to answer for AI in Australia, the operative part is the evidence regime buried inside step one.
15 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
PracticeTwo regulators wrote to regulated entities eight days apart in 2026. Neither said firms were unclear on the rules. Both said firms could not produce evidence their controls were working.
9 Sept 2026 · 2 min read