Knowledge Repository
Published scholarship, case examples and practical guides — from trust administration to the governance of autonomous systems.
Published
Whitepapers & briefings
Each carries the date it was actually written.
Agentic AI Strategic Deployment
Securing the corporate perimeter against unbounded autonomous risk.
Read →WhitepaperThe End of the Ledger
Why 500 years of retrospective auditing fails against machine-speed AI.
Read →WhitepaperThe Myth of the Human-in-the-Loop
Implementing bounded delegated authorization in mission-critical systems.
Read →WhitepaperSuccession Inside Your Estate Plan
Integrating business succession into your core estate plan — a guide for founders.
Read →The library
Papers, case notes and practical guides.
Scholarship on artificial-intelligence governance alongside plain-language explanations of trusts, trustee duties and entity formation. Published pieces are added here as they appear.
Agentic Inception & Bounded Delegated Authorization
Manuscript on the legal limits of autonomous agent authority, agent identity and revocation. Submitted for publication — posted on release.
AI Governance Field Notes
Working analysis of ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act as they land on real deployments.
Trustee Duty Guides
What a successor trustee must do first, and the deadlines that quietly create liability.
Estate Planning Explainers
Revocable vs. irrevocable, funding, and why an unfunded trust protects nothing.
Formation Playbooks
Choosing an entity, papering the founders, and staying clean for diligence.
Case Examples
Anonymized matter summaries showing how these issues resolve in practice.
A note on publication
Everything here is dated honestly.
Articles carry the date they were actually written. Nothing on this site is backdated to imply a longer track record than the work supports — the credentials are real, so they do not need help.
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