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Research Note22 April 2026
The Database Demotion
Salesforce Headless 360, read from the CIO seat. The first Tier-1 enterprise-SaaS vendor to voluntarily move its UI out of the centre of its own product. Three orders of effect, the Frankenstein problem, and where the vendor relationship has actually moved.
Research Note20 April 2026
The Speed of Trust
Dario Amodei's FT Lunch, read from the institutional-allocator seat. The Mythos disclosure that put US banks on emergency calls, the "diffuse at the speed of trust" adoption-throttle thesis, and the $380 billion underwriting problem sitting under five internally-tension-laden CEO positions.
Market Analysis19 April 2026
The 2026 AI Index, Read From the Finance Desk
Stanford HAI's twelve headline takeaways from the 2026 AI Index, reorganised into five operating signals for CIOs, heads of research, and compliance officers running AI under regulation.
Research Note16 April 2026
If It's Not Dangerous, It's Not Us
A research note on why raw AI fails in regulated finance, and why the expensive distance between fluent output and governed institutional output is where SVRN ALPHA operates.
ResearchApril 2026
When Agents Become the Trading Desk
Systematic review of 88 papers and 29 multi-agent trading systems. The central claim is that architecture, governance, and role design matter more than choosing the newest frontier model.
Market Analysis17 April 2026
The Spot Market for Expertise
Humwork.ai (YC P26) put human-in-the-loop on an API. The viral framing is "AI hires humans." The structural story is that expertise just got a ticker price, and the MCP layer is a training pipeline that funds its own replacement.
Delphi AnalysisApril 2026
The Real Price of AI
Five foundation models from four providers converge on the same economic problem: AI adoption is being priced on subsidies that will not last forever.
EssayApril 2026
The Copilot Fallacy
First-order effects are what you measure. Second- and third-order effects are where the strategy actually happens. An essay on why institutional AI programmes stall at the productivity dashboard, and what sovereign AI mastery actually requires.
Academic PaperMarch 2026
When the Middle Disappears
Seven frontier models independently converge on the same structural outcome: compression of middle layers across labor markets, organizations, and value chains.
Research NoteMarch 2026
Are We Adopting AI Fast Enough to Avoid a Bubble?
S-curve analysis of whether enterprise adoption is moving fast enough to justify current AI infrastructure spending and implied revenue expectations.
Market AnalysisApril 2026
When Agents Replace Software
Software multiple compression is treated as a symptom of a deeper shift: AI agents automate execution work that traditional SaaS was built to organize.
ResearchApril 2026
HDAX IR AI-Readiness Report
A joint study with MPCM on how prepared German HDAX companies are for AI-native investor relations.