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How to Achieve a Positive Future with AI: Four Dimensions in Balance

Why agentic development is the right answer for large enterprises and public organizations, and why it needs political guardrails.

29 August 2026 · 9 min read

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The Research Roadmap for Digital Twins of Legislation: 2024 to 2030

From the conceptual model in “Der selbstfahrende Staat” to a research program: milestones 2024 to 2027, evidenced results, and the target picture to 2030.

28 August 2026 · 11 min read

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Digital Twins of Legislation: Where the Research Stands Today

Current research on digital twins of legislation: an agentic pipeline that turns statutory text into verifiable twins, and its anchor case, the municipal tax.

28 August 2026 · 10 min read

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Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

The Agentic Software Development Lifecycle: Ten Decisions

Ten decisions on three levels that guide large organizations from manual software development to agentic delivery: foundation, operating model, scaling.

27 August 2026 · 7 min read

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Agentically Observe, Understand, and Specify Software

How the observed use of existing software is turned agentically into an evidenced as-is specification: no license costs, EU-hosted, evidence-first.

22 August 2026 · 5 min read

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Own the Spec, not the Code: Make, Buy, or Agentic Code?

The specification is the lasting asset. How Make, Buy, and Agentic Code differ in fit, total cost of ownership, time to production, and intellectual property.

18 August 2026 · 6 min read

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Practice

Across All Technologies

Mainframe, ERP, and custom software: why agentic reverse engineering works independently of technology, and what actually differs per technology.

15 August 2026 · 10 min read

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Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

Compliance as Code

Writing policies as machine-readable rules enforced at every gate instead of checking afterward: how evidence in the agentic lifecycle becomes a by-product.

15 July 2026 · 10 min read

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The Knowledge Graph as the Foundation of Agentic Modernization

Why legacy knowledge must exist for AI agents as a typed, cited, and versioned knowledge graph rather than as documents, and how such a graph is built.

15 June 2026 · 10 min read

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Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

Measuring Maturity Instead of Estimating It

Which metric counts at which maturity level, how an assessment locates each domain, and what is monitored after the 90-day measurement.

15 May 2026 · 10 min read

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From Code to Specification

Why modernization starts with an evidenced as-is: reconstructing requirements from source code and usage, validating them, and evolving them into the to-be.

15 April 2026 · 9 min read

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Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

Quality Gates Instead of Trust

Generated code is not secure by default. How separate verifier agents, four gates, and acceptance tests against the specification replace trust with evidence.

15 March 2026 · 10 min read

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Agentic Reverse Engineering: Legacy as a Knowledge Archive

A generation's knowledge lives in custom code. How agentic reverse engineering turns legacy systems into an evidenced, queryable knowledge archive.

15 February 2026 · 8 min read

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The Agentic Software Development Lifecycle: What Really Changes in Software Development

Agents execute, people define and take responsibility. What the agentic Software Development Lifecycle changes, what stays, and what can be measured.

15 January 2026 · 9 min read

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From Research Framework to Platform

What separates a research prototype from an operated platform: an open-source base, lawdigitaltwin.com, and three operating rules for twins of legislation.

15 December 2025 · 10 min read

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Cross-Border: Company Formation as a European Use Case

Why company formation in the single market is the next use case for digital twins of legislation: registers, ontology, and the research agenda.

15 November 2025 · 10 min read

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What Implementing Legislation Really Costs

A law is translated into software thousands of times. Comparing five architectures shows what that costs and why a twin of legislation saves about 35-fold.

15 October 2025 · 10 min read

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Explainable Automated Decisions from the Digital Twin of Legislation

An automated decision is only as good as its reasons. How the digital twin of legislation produces them as a derivation log from its own execution.

15 September 2025 · 10 min read

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Ontology or Language Model

What a language model can do with a statute, what an ontology must deliver, and how both work together in a digital twin of legislation.

15 August 2025 · 9 min read

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Which Legal Artifacts Belong in the Twin

Statutes, ordinances, rulings, commentaries, constitution, EU law: which legal sources a digital twin of legislation needs and what role each of them plays.

15 July 2025 · 10 min read

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The Resilient Company: Withstanding Crises Before They Happen

Resilience is decided before the crisis: the Winning Wheel, the hallmarks of resilient organizations, and a resilience dashboard for leadership.

15 June 2025 · 10 min read

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The Municipal Tax as a Test Case

Why the Austrian municipal tax under the KommStG 1993 is the next use case for digital twins of legislation: parameters, partners, limits of determinism.

15 May 2025 · 10 min read

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From Prose to Model

Text, ontology, configuration, logic: how a law becomes an executable digital twin in four layers while every result stays traceable to the wording.

15 April 2025 · 9 min read

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Digital Twins of Legislation: What a Law Can Do as a Model

What a digital twin of legislation is, why an online form is not a model of the law, and what a law as a model can and cannot do.

15 March 2025 · 10 min read

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Procurement as a Lever

The state does not just buy software, it shapes the market. Why tenders decide whether systems become explainable, open, and sovereign.

15 February 2025 · 9 min read

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Digital Sovereignty: What a State Must Not Give Up

Sovereignty means keeping rules, data, identity, and interfaces in public hands. What a state may source, what it must not, and why Europe matters.

15 January 2025 · 9 min read

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Resilience of the State

Outage, manipulation, fallback level: how a self-driving state stays capable of acting when its software goes down or comes under attack.

15 December 2024 · 10 min read

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Where Autonomy Reaches Its Limits

Discretion, judicial decisions, and interference with fundamental rights: three limits where the self-driving state deliberately stops, and how to draw them.

15 November 2024 · 10 min read

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Municipalities First

Why the municipality is the best starting point for the self-driving state, what it needs from the state and federal levels, and where to start today.

15 October 2024 · 10 min read

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The Public Service in 2035

Why the self-driving state is not a job-cutting program, which roles emerge in the public service by 2035, and what makes it an attractive employer.

15 September 2024 · 9 min read

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Explainability as a Principle of the Rule of Law

The AI Act has been in force since August 1, 2024. Why explainability is a rule-of-law principle in the self-driving state and how software gives reasons.

15 August 2024 · 11 min read

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Registers Instead of Certificates

Once-only taken to its conclusion: the state should not demand certificates it issues itself. What registers must deliver and where administrations can start.

15 July 2024 · 10 min read

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Application-Free Government: Services That Reach People on Their Own

Why the application becomes the exception in the self-driving state: the no-stop shop model, Austria's automatic tax assessment, and what proactivity needs.

15 June 2024 · 9 min read

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The Office Without Forms

Why forms become obsolete in the self-driving state: procedures start with an event, not an application. Four prerequisites and examples from practice.

15 May 2024 · 10 min read

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Four Dimensions for the State

Autonomy, sustainability, resilience, and a human focus: what the four dimensions of the self-driving company mean in the public sector.

15 April 2024 · 10 min read

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The Self-Driving State: Why Public Administration Is the Ideal Candidate

Rule-boundness and the duty to give reasons are seen as brakes on administration. Why exactly these traits make the state the ideal candidate for autonomy.

15 March 2024 · 9 min read

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A Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

How small and medium-sized enterprises start on the road to the self-driving company: six steps, an example from construction, and a look ahead.

15 February 2024 · 10 min read

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New Perspectives for People and the Environment

The four dimensions of the self-driving company in detail, and why transparency makes sustainability and humanity both possible and indispensable.

15 January 2024 · 10 min read

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People in the Self-Driving Company

Six theses on the role of people in the company of 2035: what software takes over, what stays with people, and what executives can derive from it today.

15 December 2023 · 10 min read

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Value Creation in the Self-Driving Company, Part 2

Automated production, robotics with digital twins, and autonomous warehouses: the three physical drivers of value creation in the self-driving company.

15 November 2023 · 9 min read

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Value Creation in the Self-Driving Company, Part 1

From Porter's value chain to a networked control loop: the five drivers of value creation in the self-driving company, starting with research and planning.

15 October 2023 · 10 min read

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A Plea for Software Intelligence

Why the benefit of artificial intelligence only emerges in integrated software, and how it changes decisions, organizational forms, work, and resources.

15 September 2023 · 9 min read

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Out with the Old Software

Why building on top of legacy core systems costs more than replacing them, what technical debt really costs, and which barriers must fall before renewal.

15 August 2023 · 9 min read

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Transparency for Legacy Replacement: Automated Software Documentation

Why replacing grown legacy systems fails on missing documentation, and how automated software documentation with Sysparency creates transparency.

15 July 2023 · 9 min read

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Transparency for Value Creation, Fairness, and Quality of Life

Why traceable software ends departmental silos, creates fairness toward employees, partners, and the state, and brings more quality of life.

15 June 2023 · 10 min read

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AI and Science Fiction: Why There Will Be No Skynet

Skynet needs a self, a survival instinct, and goals of its own. AI systems have none of these. What science fiction tells us about AI, and what it does not.

15 May 2023 · 9 min read

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The Diversity of Intelligent Software Systems

From robotaxis in Shenzhen to the factory floor: what intelligent software systems share technically, where they work in a company, and what stays with people.

15 April 2023 · 8 min read

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Cognitive Software Is More Than Artificial Intelligence

Why the self-driving company needs cognitive software, what ChatGPT already anticipates, and the two requirements every decision-making software must meet.

15 March 2023 · 10 min read

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How Self-Driving Companies Decide

What a decision is, why calculations only produce results, and why software decides better precisely where people err systematically.

15 February 2023 · 9 min read

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Safe Software Means Safe Decisions

How software algorithms decide, why deep learning keeps raising decision quality, and which four conditions make software decisions safe.

15 January 2023 · 10 min read

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The Organizational Structure for True Agility

Why agility is a question of organizational structure: vertical product slicing, self-steering teams, leadership by objectives, and software as coordinator.

15 December 2022 · 10 min read

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Industry 4.0 Is Over, Now Comes the Self-Driving Factory

Industry 4.0 networked the factory. The self-driving factory goes further: programmed rather than built, copyable, and optimized as a whole in real time.

15 November 2022 · 10 min read

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Enterprise Architecture for Self-Driving Companies

Why the ERP system remains the foundation of the self-driving company, which two capabilities it still lacks, and what enterprise architecture must deliver.

15 October 2022 · 10 min read

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The End of Processes, Long Live the Algorithms

Why end-to-end processes are only an intermediate step in digitalization and how networked algorithms will steer the company as a whole.

15 September 2022 · 10 min read

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The Self-Driving Company: A Summary of the Book

What the thinking model of the self-driving company describes: four dimensions, five levels of autonomy, and the road to the company of 2035.

15 August 2022 · 10 min read

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