Marc Akbar
40+ years building in enterprise tech, AI, and cybersecurity — founder, CTO, and startup mentor in Toronto. Writing on what comes next.
Writing
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Oct 8, 2026
The Legacy System Is the Oracle
AI changes legacy-modernization economics when it helps convert a running system's observable behaviour into executable evidence, so teams can decide what to preserve, change, or retire.
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Sep 29, 2026
A Route Solver Should Not Decide What the Business Values
A route engine should continue to calculate feasible plans. The business still has to define how service, cost, risk, and escalation should be traded when conditions change.
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Sep 17, 2026
A Working AI System Is Not Yet a Proven Investment
A production AI system can be useful and widely adopted while still failing to prove the business result it was funded to create. The baseline has to exist before deployment.
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Aug 27, 2026
The CEO Cannot Delegate AI Transformation
AI transformation can redesign the operating model of a company. The CEO must understand enough to lead it before hiring someone else to coordinate it.
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Aug 17, 2026
The Decision Missing From Every Forecast
A forecast changes nothing until an organisation has decided who reviews it, what threshold matters, and which action is authorised when the signal moves.
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Aug 13, 2026
From Messy PDFs to a Knowledge Lattice
A private document system became useful only after we tested real page types, preserved evidence, and treated document versions as part of the knowledge rather than something to overwrite.
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Aug 11, 2026
Data Cleanup Should Follow Decision Authority
Do not wait for an enterprise-wide data cleanup before deploying AI. Define one bounded decision, then clean the data required to make that path reliable.
Work
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Private AI Appliance In development
Local AI that stays local — for businesses that want AI capabilities without the privacy trade-offs.
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Human Firewall In development
Security awareness that treats people as the first line of defense, not the weakest link.
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Rayonnance Ongoing
Twenty-four years of technology leadership for companies navigating transformation and mobile software.