Articles
Deep-dives and field notes. Everything here is publishable evidence for the Microsoft MVP Annual Review, and hopefully useful to you too.
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From pilot to programme — an MVP's playbook for scaling a social-good AI project on Azure
Most impact pilots never graduate. Here's how I think about Azure credits, managed identity, Foundry, and the un-sexy operational scaffolding that lets a good idea survive contact with the real world.
- MVP
- Azure AI Foundry
- Operations
- Social good
- Scaling
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ConservAxion — verifying clean-energy and biodiversity impact with Azure AI Foundry
An Azure Foundry pilot for impact verification. Clean-energy and biodiversity outcomes, validated by AI, anchored in a tamper-evident audit trail, deployed in pilot households in KwaZulu-Natal.
- Azure AI Foundry
- Confidential Ledger
- IoT Hub
- Social good
- Impact verification
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Grounding agents in government policy — lessons from building Pfula
When your knowledge base is messy government documentation translated across languages, grounding is the whole product. A practical look at Foundry Agent Service tools, MCP, and the guardrails that keep a bilingual assistant honest.
- Azure AI Foundry
- Foundry Agent Service
- MCP
- Grounding
- Multilingual
- Social good
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AI for the offline last mile — IoT Hub, edge validation, and Foundry grounding for rural pilots
Bandwidth is expensive, connectivity is intermittent, and the device is probably a cheap phone. Here's the Azure pattern we use to run impact-verification agents on the edges of the network.
- Azure IoT Hub
- Azure AI Foundry
- Edge
- Rural deployment
- Social good
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Flagship
Pfula — an isiZulu AI assistant for South African government services on Azure AI Foundry
A bilingual (isiZulu / English) government-services assistant built on Azure OpenAI and Foundry Agent Service — where the knowledge base is the tool-set and citizen-facing streaming is first-class.
- Azure AI Foundry
- Foundry Agent Service
- Azure OpenAI
- isiZulu
- Social good
- Government services
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Verifiable impact — making green claims auditable with Azure Confidential Ledger
Carbon credits and biodiversity offsets only work if someone else can check the evidence later. A pattern for anchoring AI-generated verifications in a tamper-evident ledger.
- Azure Confidential Ledger
- Azure AI Foundry
- Impact verification
- Tamper evidence
- Social good