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The Handvantage editorial archive. Engineering retrospectives, sector dossiers, and briefings — on agentic AI governance, compliance posture, architecture trade-offs, and the regulatory environment. New writing every one to two weeks. No subscriptions, no popups, no SEO factory.

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From B to A: the discipline behind the upgrade

What changed between February and May to move the compliance posture three letter grades. Less novel methodology than you'd expect.

May 5, 2026

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BRIEFING

May 2, 2026 · 5 min read

The EU AI Act deadline your CISO is ignoring

August 2, 2026 is the high-risk obligations deadline. The audit window opened in Q1. Most security leaders are still treating it as a Q4 problem.

BRIEFING

May 2, 2026 · 7 min read

Why 40% of agentic AI projects fail (and the governance answer)

Gartner's number, our reading. The pattern in cancelled projects is the same one in cancelled compliance reviews: missing evidence, not missing controls.