The Ledger

The Wage Gradient

How the AI boom is strip-mining industrial competence

Nov 18 • 

Dom Potter

The Risk Ceiling

Every transition ends where the underwriter’s model begins

Nov 11 • 

Dom Potter

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Scope 4: Degradation

The hidden emissions we don’t count: how net-zero accounting is driving the slow erosion of quality, durability and trust.

Nov 4 • 

Dom Potter

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October 2025

The Expertise Exodus

In the next five years, half of industrial Britain will retire. The knowledge walking out the door was never written down.

Oct 21 • 

Dom Potter

The Reliability Tax

Why the most dependable systems waste the most energy

Oct 14 • 

Dom Potter

The Accidental Infrastructure

How the most critical systems get built when everyone's optimising locally

Oct 7 • 

Dom Potter

September 2025

The Veto Points

Why industrial projects fail after approval - and how to map the hidden constraints before they trigger

Sep 30 • 

Dom Potter

Data Entropy

When Metrics Decay

Sep 23 • 

Dom Potter

The Nowhere Loop

When projects circle but never scale

Sep 16 • 

Dom Potter

The Missing Readiness

Bridging the gap between technology potential and project reality

Sep 9 • 

Dom Potter

Resilience > Efficiency

Why efficiency without an Adaptive Margin is fragility-by-design

Sep 2 • 

Dom Potter

August 2025

The Myth of Green Growth

Rebounds, blindspots and the limits of decoupling

Aug 26 • 

Dom Potter