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The Signal. Fortnightly. One briefing from the Elixir practice teams on the enterprise AI decisions that matter most to the leaders making them.
The Signal is Elixir's fortnightly newsletter for senior enterprise leaders. Each edition covers one topic in depth: a production AI outcome, a decision framework, a research finding from the AI Outlook, or a perspective from a practice lead who has just returned from a client engagement. No news aggregation. No AI hype. The Signal from inside the work.
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Published every two weeks. One topic. Depth over volume. No digest format.
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Every edition is written by a practitioner who has deployed production AI, not a content team.
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The name is intentional. Most enterprise AI content is noise: vendor announcements, analyst rankings, prediction roundups, and AI trend reports that describe what is theoretically possible rather than what is currently happening in production environments. The Signal is the opposite. One topic. Practitioner-written. Grounded in a current deployment, a research finding, or a client conversation from the preceding two weeks.
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One edition in three comes directly from the practice: a practitioner writes about a decision they made or observed on a current engagement. What the problem was. What they decided. What happened.
One finding from the AI Outlook in depth
One edition in three focuses on a specific finding from the AI Outlook 2026 research. The finding, the data behind it, and what it means for an enterprise that has not yet made the relevant decision.
A decision a senior leader is facing right now
One edition in three frames a specific decision that enterprise leaders are currently facing: how to assess AI readiness, how to select a model, how to structure the operations team after go-live. The framework and the production evidence for it.
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Previous editions
Recent issues of The Signal.
Sep 26
What the data foundation failure actually looks like in practice: A field account from a mid-build discovery
A practitioner account of discovering a data quality issue six months into a SAP S/4HANA AI deployment. What the issue was, what it cost in time and programme budget, and what the pre-build data readiness check would have found in two days.
- From the practice
- Data Foundation
- Manifesto Principle 5
Sep 12
Permanent Operations: Why the AI programme that was handed over is now underperforming the one that was not
Research finding from the AI Outlook 2026 on the performance gap between programmes under permanent operations and programmes handed over to client teams at go-live. The 22% average degradation figure explained in detail.
- Research finding
- AI Outlook 2026
- Permanent Operations
Aug 29
The five questions a CFO should be able to answer before approving an AI budget: A decision framework
Decision framework for CFOs evaluating AI investment in the finance function. The five questions, the production evidence that supports each one as the right thing to ask, and what the answers tell you about whether the programme has been properly scoped.
- Decision framework
- Finance operations
- CFO audience
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