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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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.
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Aug 8, 2026
The Offline Field Assistant Is an AI Architecture Test
An offline field-service assistant forces architects to solve local state, synchronisation, idempotency, expiring authority, provenance, recovery, and physical completion in one system.
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Aug 6, 2026
Memory Governance Is a Gate
A shared AI assistant must do more than remember accurately. It must know who may receive a fact, what has been deleted, and when useful recall becomes a governance failure.
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Aug 5, 2026
Metered Inference Needs an Owner
AI cost becomes dangerous when token consumption cannot be connected to an accepted business outcome, a named owner, and an automatic stopping point.
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.