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Field notes, write-ups, and board-readable briefings.

Partner-written thought leadership from across the four practices. Filter by the team that wrote it — or read the latest below. Published when we have something genuinely useful to say, not on a content calendar.

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Sentry XDR · Migration

From 4h to 12m: a Sentinel migration write-up

The 90-day migration from a legacy SIEM to Microsoft Sentinel. What we kept, what we replaced, how the analyst rota changed, and the mean-time-to-acknowledge numbers before and after the cut-over.

SOC partner14 min readMay 2026
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Modern Workplace

Copilot for clinicians — sensitivity labels at the source

Why retrofitting governance after deployment guarantees an oversharing incident. The clinical-policy agent pattern, end to end.

Practice partner · MWApril 2026
Modern Workplace

Rolling out Copilot to 8,000 seats without a governance incident

Staged enablement, label inheritance, and the three controls we set before the first licence is assigned. A field playbook.

Practice partner · MWMarch 2026
Sentry XDR

The governance hooks we wire into every Evergreen tenant

Evergreen bundles integrated Sentry XDR governance hooks into the Modern Workplace run. Here is what that means in the SOW, and why we hold a 99.96% availability SLA against it.

Practice partner · SOCMay 2026
Sentry XDR

Inside our SOC rota: how a 99.96% SLA actually holds

The unglamorous mechanics behind the number — shift handover, escalation ladders, and the runbooks that keep a 2am alert from becoming a 9am incident.

SOC partnerApril 2026
Sentry XDR

Tuning detections: cutting false positives 60% in 30 days

A structured suppression and enrichment programme that gave analysts their attention back. The before/after on alert volume and triage time.

SOC partnerMarch 2026
InterReality Labs

The Copilot extensibility roadmap — Copilot Studio + Foundry

How the Evergreen extensibility roadmap turns into a shipped agent: framing, build, land. Includes the refusal-rate measurement we use to decide ship/iterate/kill.

Practice partner · LabsMay 2026
InterReality Labs

Shipping a production agent: framing to land

The two-week cadence we run from problem framing to a governed, measurable agent in production — and the guardrails that keep it inside policy.

Practice partner · LabsMarch 2026
Advisory

Independent assurance: partner-signed, board-ready

Time-and-materials assurance is structurally compromised. Signed by the partner named on the SOW — delivered as a quarterly board pack and benchmark, not a slide deck.

Practice partner · AdvisoryApril 2026
Advisory

When to kill a programme — and how to write the paper

Two programmes we have recommended killing in the last three years. Why the board agreed. What we wrote in the close-out paper.

Advisory partnerMarch 2026
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Insights is partner-written, peer-reviewed, and published only when there is something genuinely useful to say. No ghostwriting, no SEO bait, no AI-summarised press releases.

No vendor parrotingIf Microsoft launched a feature this morning, you will not read a marketing summary here this afternoon.
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