About The Beagle

The Beagle is a publication about AI at scale for European enterprises. It follows one question: how can an organisation deploy AI in a way that creates real business value, stays explainable and compliant, and keeps strategic control over the business itself?

Each essay here hands you something you can run on your own organisation, without a vendor and in about an hour. This page says where that comes from, who it is written for, and who writes it.

Why The Beagle exists

Every post here rests on one reading, and it is mine: AI at scale is not mainly a model problem. It is an enterprise design problem. Most organisations already have the data, the talent and the ambition to do far more with AI. What they usually lack is an explicit, governable model of how the business actually works, across systems, countries, rules and decisions. That is where business ontology comes in: making the enterprise's implicit operating logic explicit enough for AI to compound value instead of multiplying contradictions.

I started The Beagle because that reading was missing from what an executive can find. Most of what is written about AI for leaders is about models, vendors and budgets, and almost nothing is about the enterprise the AI lands in, which is the part you run.

What you will find here

Essays, and a monthly briefing. The essays sit under five themes:

• Business ontology: the explicit model of how your business works, and the layer that decides what AI does with it.
• AI at scale: why pilots stall, and what makes them add up.
• Competitive advantage: which decisions AI should make better, and how the advantage builds from there.
• Governance: where control sits in an automated decision.
• Sovereignty: what depends on you, and what depends on a supplier you do not control.

Each essay ends with a test. One counts how many different answers five owners give for a single decision. One runs the same count on the three words your teams define differently. One replaces the list of use cases on the executive committee's agenda with a single question.

The briefing is The Beagle AI Control Brief, on the 15th of each month. It covers what changed in European AI supervision, where it touches enterprise AI, and what to ask for, in a table by role: the CIO, the COO and the transformation leader. Every post ends with a question back to you, and the comments are open.

Who it is for

I write first for the person who carries the transformation: the transformation leader, the chief digital officer, the chief AI officer, or the CIO who has taken that role on. That person has to make AI add up across countries, systems and rules. They also have to convince three people who read the same post differently: the CIO, who answers for the systems; the COO, who answers for the operations; and the CEO, who answers for the result. So the posts are written for that person, and for the meeting where the other three have to be convinced.

Who writes it

The Beagle is written by Yannick Meriguet. I have spent my whole career changing organisations. That is the seat I write from: the transformation leader's, watching what AI does to a company in the middle of changing itself.

Reading it, and writing back

Subscribe, and the essays and the brief arrive by email; nothing else does. The site runs with no trackers and no third-party scripts, hosted in the EU, and the privacy page says exactly what is collected. If a post gave you a sentence for your next review, or if it did not, say so in the comments or on LinkedIn; I read them all.