Clare Kitching: LinkedIn Content Strategy & Writing Style

Governance breaks down the moment no one owns the decision. A couple of weeks ago I shared a simple way to think about data governance vs AI governance. Governing inputs vs governing outcomes. Ther…

Data isn't the hard part. Understanding each other is. Ontology. Lineage. Semantic layers. Vector databases. I've been in data for over 15 years, and sometimes even I feel like I'm decoding a forei…

Every project starts with hope. Every timeline ends with a sigh. Why? Because AI & data projects are the perfect storm of: → Optimism bias (a.k.a. the planning fallacy) → Fuzzy scope (“we think we wa…

2026 is the year AI stopped being a feature. It became part of the operating system of the enterprise. Across the latest 2026 flagship reports, one message is clear: this is the inflection point for…

Everyone talks about AI models. Very few talk about AI systems. When you look under the hood of most AI today, you rarely find just a large language model. You find layers. Context. Memory. Retrieva…

If AI feels both everywhere and strangely unclear, you’re not behind. You’re normal. Most execs I speak to aren’t confused about AI. They’re confused by the language. The same terms get thrown aroun…