Building software you can still trust in year ten isn’t about features — it’s four decisions made at the foundation: minimal dependencies, data that never gets lost, security enforced at the database, and trust earned by written discipline. Told through one small system built to that standard.
Most enterprise AI conversations I sit in start at the wrong layer. Someone has seen a demo, a product name is already on the table, and the meeting is about how to deploy it. The questions that should have come first — is this worth doing, what happens when it’s wrong, who maintains it in year two — get asked later, usually by the CFO, usually after money has been spent. ...
Copilot in D365 CE isn’t a feature drop — it’s quietly redrawing where the value sits across the customer journey. Three shifts I see from the inside.
There’s a familiar question circulating in BC communities right now: “Is Copilot going to replace consultants?” It’s the wrong question. After watching how AI tools are entering Business Central implementations — both in real projects and in the conversations clients are starting to bring to the table — I don’t think the consultant’s job is disappearing. I think it’s being rewritten. The work that defined a strong BC consultant five years ago is not the work that will define one five years from now. And the consultants who recognize this shift early will have a meaningful head start. ...