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Healthtech Interoperability Standards for AI in Australia
12 Sept 2026

Healthtech Interoperability Standards for AI in Australia

A practical guide for technical leaders building AI features on Australian clinical data — covering FHIR, My Health Record integration, ADHA standards, and where TGA regulation applies before deployment.

7 min readChris Kerr
AI Vendor Risk: Contracts, SLAs & Liability for AI Features
11 Sept 2026

AI Vendor Risk: Contracts, SLAs & Liability for AI Features

Embedding third-party AI into your product introduces risks that standard SaaS contracts and SLAs were never designed to cover. Here's what technology and business leaders need to check before they sign.

6 min readChris Kerr
AI-Augmented Test Automation for Legacy Modernisation
11 Sept 2026

AI-Augmented Test Automation for Legacy Modernisation

AI-augmented test automation uses machine learning to generate, maintain, and prioritise software tests — a genuine accelerant for legacy modernisation, but not a substitute for human judgment on test intent. This piece sets out where AI-generated tests are reliable, where human review stays essential, and how to structure a testing strategy around both.

7 min readChris Kerr
AI Vendor Risk Management: Contracts, SLAs & Liability
10 Sept 2026

AI Vendor Risk Management: Contracts, SLAs & Liability

Embedding a third-party AI model changes your risk exposure in ways standard SaaS contracts don't cover. Here's what actually needs to be in the agreement — from SLAs to indemnity to data handling.

7 min readChris Kerr
International Expansion Architecture for Australian SaaS
9 Sept 2026

International Expansion Architecture for Australian SaaS

Expanding an Australian SaaS platform overseas means re-architecting infrastructure, data residency, tenancy, billing, and AI features together — not as a configuration change. This guide sets out the key architecture decisions and privacy obligations CTOs need to work through first.

6 min readChris Kerr
Data Product Management: Treating Datasets Like Products
8 Sept 2026

Data Product Management: Treating Datasets Like Products

Most internal datasets have no owner, no documented SLA, and no versioning discipline — which is why downstream teams stop trusting them and start duplicating them. This piece lays out a lightweight framework for treating a handful of critical datasets as products, without committing to a full data mesh rebuild.

7 min readChris Kerr
Business Continuity Planning for AI-Dependent Products
7 Sept 2026

Business Continuity Planning for AI-Dependent Products

Business continuity planning for AI-dependent products means designing systems and processes so AI features keep working, in degraded form if needed, when a model provider has an outage, changes rate limits, or deprecates an API. Here's how to classify critical-path features and design failover accordingly.

6 min readChris Kerr
Composable Commerce vs Monolith: A Decision Guide
5 Sept 2026

Composable Commerce vs Monolith: A Decision Guide

A practical decision guide for retail and e-commerce technology teams weighing a move from monolithic platforms to composable, headless architecture — covering flexibility, cost, team capability and common migration pitfalls.

6 min readChris Kerr
Sustainable, Cost-Efficient Cloud Architecture for Scale-Ups
4 Sept 2026

Sustainable, Cost-Efficient Cloud Architecture for Scale-Ups

Cost-efficient cloud architecture at scale starts with governance, not infrastructure choice. This piece covers the account structure, guardrails, and cost levers that keep spend under control as engineering teams grow, and how to choose between a SaaS governance layer and an embedded consultancy model.

5 min readChris Kerr