Iceberg Tribe Advisory • AI Decision Architecture (Build & Buy)
Every piece here audits an irreversible decision an institution faces across the five enterprise AI gates — whether commissioning an in-house build, approving an internal go-live, or procuring from an external vendor. Not trending topics, not a content calendar.
When an audit reaches an enforceable standard — a warranty review for vendor contracts, or an Internal Build Checklist and Initiative Register for systems built in-house — it points directly to Instruments: runnable diagnostic tools, not another conceptual post.
The Five Decision Gates
Irreversible milestones across the enterprise AI decision lifecycle — both in-house builds and vendor procurement
“Because a category is a compressed argument, adopting a vendor or analyst's vocabulary quietly commits an institution to their boundaries, metrics, and options before any formal decision is made.”
“Because the problem arrives pre-framed in categories vendors and analysts built — and a tool can only see the shape of context its own instrument was built to detect.”
“Because whoever names the problem also shapes which solutions qualify — and nobody who usually handles that sentence is free of a stake in it.”