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The Trust Architecture
One essay a week on AI governance in regulated pharma: validation, human oversight, what regulators are actually asking, and who, specifically, answers. Written from inside the industry, with the receipts.
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Recent and essential
The latest editions, plus the three I would hand a stranger first: the one that named the problem, the staircase, and the wrong unit.
- #30 · 30 Oct 2026 The Reviewer Who Finds Nothing.
- #29 · 23 Oct 2026 Sorry, but “Within Spec” Doesn’t Mean “Valid”.
- #28 · 16 Oct 2026 EMA Asked Who Notices. Read the Questions, Not the Answers.
- #27 · 9 Oct 2026 Who, Specifically, Stops AI at 3 a.m. of a Sunday?
- #26 · 2 Oct 2026 Everything Humanity Agrees On Fits on One Page. Does AI Understand It?
- #24 · 18 Sept 2026 The SOP Is the Wrong Unit.
- #18 · 7 Aug 2026 30 AI Pilots, Two in Production, and the Staircase Nobody Builds
- #4 · 8 May 2026 Validation Is Not Trust.
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