Long-form pieces on climate fintech, sovereign quantum compute, and the lawful AI rollout — from Clonmel.
A managing partner in a Midlands firm asked me a fair question over coffee: could a small AI swarm replace one of the seniors who had just left? I told him that
A fabricated case citation is the new typo, except it can lose a court filing, a regulator submission, or a client. The legal profession has spent two years fin
A practice archive is not a library. It is a sediment. Twenty-five years of matters, memos, schedules, exhibits, draft clauses, file notes, marked-up redlines a
Most mid-market firms I meet have already bought the licences. Copilot is on, ChatGPT Enterprise is on, somebody on the leadership team has run a Claude trial,
Every project of any size has a date, and most of those dates are wishes. Q2 2027 is not a wish. It is the date by which Ireland Quantum has committed to stand
Most AI rollouts I've seen stall not because the model is wrong but because the paperwork is in the wrong order. A team builds the pilot, the legal review lands
Sovereignty is a word that gets bandied about in cloud marketing decks until it means almost nothing. A region badge on a console is not sovereignty. A clause i
Standing up a sovereign quantum compute facility is, before anything else, a hiring problem. The hardware is buyable. The buildings are buildable. The grid conn
Every quantum announcement you read this year will lead with a physical qubit count. A thousand. Two thousand. Soon enough, ten thousand. The number is meant to
Most people, when they hear "Ireland's first sovereign quantum facility," picture a glass box on the M50, somewhere between a hyperscaler and an airport hotel.
Most "green" marketplaces are a logo wall with a checkout button. Behind the wall, the actual plumbing — who fired the affiliate pixel, which network booked the
Most carbon offsets fail at the checkout. The booking confirms, the receipt sends, and somewhere off to the side a separate process is supposed to fire — a webh
A retired carbon credit is a string of letters and numbers in a database somewhere. That is the awkward truth at the heart of voluntary offsetting. The credit s
Most "green" cards I've looked at are a marketing skin on a normal payment product. A leaf on the artwork, a pledge to plant trees somewhere, a quarterly report
Most carbon claims in travel die in a PDF. A hotel ticks a box, a brand prints a leaf on a banner, and somewhere a spreadsheet is updated by someone you will ne
Carbon offsets have a trust problem, and most of the people selling them know it. The market has been hit by a steady run of stories about phantom forests, doub
Technical detail and founder notes from inside IMPT — same subjects, denser voice.
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