Guides, in plain language

Why the market sells five products for one problem, and where that leaves the risk.

What happens in week one, month one and quarter one — and what we will need from you.

How to choose, what changes, and how to move between them later.

Why reviews take a quarter, why reviewers rubber-stamp, and what makes the difference.

What changes when the thing holding a credential is not a person — and what to ask any vendor.

Where each vendor genuinely leads, including the rows where we do not.

Lock-in, single point of failure, migration, and the other fair objections.

The acronyms, in English. Useful for the half of the room who did not choose this topic.

What we do with your data, what we do not, and what you can verify yourself.

Things worth arguing about, including when the conclusion is inconvenient for us.

How the number is built, and how consolidation business cases usually collapse.

Keep what you own. Stop maintaining the joins between it.

One-page technical summaries of each capability and the deployment models. Built to attach to an evaluation.

Longer arguments — the economics of consolidation, governing non-human identity, the case for outbound-only architecture.

Shorter, more frequent, occasionally opinionated. Where the market is going and what it means for buyers.