Industry and market
Who is hiring, how the deployment company model works, what the Chinese market looks like, and where the money actually is.
- 2026-10-30The 2026 deployment wave, read as numbersModel labs and integrators stood up deployment organisations within two weeks in May 2026. The figures describe a channel being bought, not a hiring trend.5 min read
- 2026-10-30China's FDE bottleneck is not the engineersRoughly 60 million firms, broad awareness of AI, and on the order of a thousand people willing to take delivery work. The constraint sits in pricing and platforms.5 min read
- 2026-10-30What a training programme can and cannot buyBootcamps, cohort courses and 32-week academies each sell something different. What a paid programme reliably provides, what it cannot, and how to judge one before paying.4 min read