Legacy-Systems

Here is a real story. Back in early 2025, one of my very AI forward colleagues and I were talking about where all this was heading. He was convinced that by the end of 2026 AI would already have dramatic reach across society. The paranoia was real. Jobs gone. Massive disruption. Entire industries changing overnight. I had a different view. Not because I thought the technology would fail. Quite the opposite. I thought the technology would become capable of doing almost everything surprisingly quickly. ...

Your organisation has a document management system. Maybe it’s called Objective. Maybe it’s TRIM. Maybe it’s a home-grown records platform that nobody wants to touch because the person who built it left in 2014. Whatever it’s called, it holds years of institutional knowledge. Briefings, reports, decisions, correspondence, approvals. The kind of material that makes new work possible — if you can find it. You can’t. Not quickly, anyway. And that’s the problem this post is about. ...