Insights
Advisory and build notes for GPU compute operators and the teams financing them: cluster and datacenter architecture, hardware configuration, off-take readiness, and applied AI systems.
September 3, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
A cluster can pass every acceptance test on delivery day and still fail in week two. Burn-in is the multi-day soak that surfaces the marginal parts while remediation is still the supplier's problem, and it belongs in the deal before you pay.
August 26, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
A reservation is a forward contract on compute, not a sunk cost, and the right to exit it is a term you negotiate before you sign, not one you discover after.
August 12, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
A full build-out for a 576-GPU cluster, priced four honest ways, showing why moving the cost of capital from 15 to 7 percent is worth more than most of the price gaps actually being negotiated.
July 29, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Two vendors quoting the same headline dollar-per-GPU-hour number can mean completely different things, because the rate is a bundle and every vendor bundles differently. Here is what is usually inside it, what usually bills separately, and how to normalize two quotes before you compare them.
July 15, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
The acceptance tests, in order, that separate a working cluster from an expensive rack of space heaters, and the number to demand at each gate before you release payment.
June 18, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Six questions about the counterparty, not the cluster, worked with dated public examples of what a good answer and a bad answer each look like.
February 27, 2026 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
In a world of powerful LLMs, our focus is shifting from extraction to trust.
March 31, 2025 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Quarterly update on AdaNomad's research, platform development, and client success
November 20, 2024 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
A comprehensive guide to understanding AceTeam's app development model
October 29, 2024 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Our foundation model for information extraction.
October 13, 2024 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
How we designed AdaPitch to automate personalized sales emails
August 8, 2024 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Legal document processing with AI strategies.
November 4, 2023 · Jason Sun, Principal Consultant
Text to SQL with AI for dashboards to gain insight from SQL databases.