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Essays on enterprise data architecture, ERP, operational governance, and the substrate enterprise AI actually needs. No fluff. No gated content.
SubscribeThe Physics of Business
On why the machines on a factory floor can be trusted, why the systems running the business behind them cannot.
The Machinery is the Tell
On path dependency, and why a wrong foundation is not corrected but built upon until it cannot be corrected at all.
When Compensation Becomes Architecture
How ERP was defined by its limitations, why enterprise AI is repeating the pattern, and what it would mean to solve the actual problem.
We Keep Perfecting the Sledge
Enterprise software has spent thirty years making it less painful to force a business into an application that was never shaped to hold it.
Never Forecast What You Can Calculate
Joseph Orlicky drew a border between the part of an operation that must be estimated and the part that can be computed, and told us to respect it.
Earning the Word “Governed”
The necessary conditions before any vendor, consultant, or enterprise may claim governed autonomous execution. This is not an argument for a solution. It is an argument for what a solution has to be.
Why Nobody Wants to Blame the ERP
There is a sentence you will hear in every ERP post-mortem, every analyst briefing, every recovery engagement.
Your ERP Is Not the System Your Business Runs On
There is a quiet fiction inside most companies. It appears in board decks, transformation plans, implementation roadmaps, and executive updates.
The AI-Ready ERP Doesn't Exist Yet
(And Here's What Would Have to Be True About One)
How to Preserve One Version of Truth Using 37 Systems and a Parrot
An instructional manuscript recovered during the recent expedition to the vaults of Lucifer Gorgonzola Butt; transcribed, footnoted, and reproduced here in defiance of Counsel’s recommendation..
The Wrong Gate
A system can be online, secure, integrated, and permissioned correctly and still fail to preserve what the business means.
The Missing Layer
Every serious framework for enterprise AI readiness has the same shape: it’s right about the data, and it stops one floor too early.
Precision Belongs in the Substrate
Four voices in the enterprise software discourse, arguing for incompatible cures, have converged this spring on the same diagnosis: the systems we run our businesses on do not carry the rules they pre
The Bookkeepers Inheritance
Every ERP you’ve ever used was built for the accountant.
The Operational Canon
I built Mimir Labs because I believe enterprise software has the wrong purpose. Its job is to maintain the operational canon — the authoritative, adjudicated record of how the business is actual
No AI Will Fix Your Broken Data Layer
The enterprise software industry has spent three years retrofitting the word “AI-native” onto products that predate LLMs by decades.
Mimisbrunnr, Explained
Or: why we built a database schema and then refused to let anyone change it.
The Greater Fool
Every buyer pays more for the same broken thing. The system is not broken. It is working exactly as designed.
What the Builders Know
Why the people who designed your enterprise software do not write about it, what their silence has cost the industry, and why the next three years are the window in which the silence ends or the damag
Glass Machines
Every expensive machine in the world works when it arrives. Except one.