Vitalos Insights
Vitalos is a UK technology consulting, engineering and digital transformation firm. We help ambitious organisations modernise operations, build digital products and adopt AI, from strategy to production.
Executive briefing
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill brings managed service providers and critical suppliers into scope, with a 24-hour incident reporting clock. After M&S, Co-op and JLR, here is what to ask your suppliers now.
VITALOS · 12 OCT 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Point of view
When an AI agent makes a costly mistake, someone has to answer for it. Gartner thinks insurers, not regulators, will force the issue. Here is what accountability should look like now.
VITALOS · 7 OCT 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Insight article
AI costs scale with every model call, retry and agent loop. Gartner expects most large firms to put FinOps controls at the point of inference by 2028. Here is how to start now.
VITALOS · 29 SEP 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Point of view
Gartner predicts 80% of new applications will be intentionally disposable by 2029. That is good news, if your platform is ready for it. If not, it is shadow IT at industrial scale.
VITALOS · 22 SEP 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Executive briefing
The NHS Federated Data Platform's whole-life cost estimate has risen to £1.1bn while forecast benefits fell to £808m. Whatever your view of the supplier, there are lessons here for every data platform business case.
VITALOS · 26 AUG 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Executive briefing
2 August 2026 was meant to be the big day for high-risk AI under the EU AI Act. The Digital Omnibus moved it. Here is the new timeline, and why UK firms selling into Europe should not relax.
VITALOS · 4 AUG 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Insight article
Teams using AI coding tools heavily ship more work, but bugs per pull request are up 29% and review times have grown fivefold. How to keep the speed without the breakage.
VITALOS · 21 JUL 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Insight article
70% of organisations say less than half their unstructured data is usable for AI. Before the next pilot, fix the foundations. Here is a readiness check you can run this month.
VITALOS · 8 JUL 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Executive briefing
Only 17% of enterprises have deployed AI agents, yet almost everyone plans to. What separates the minority that ship from the majority still stuck in pilots.
VITALOS · 16 JUN 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Executive briefing
58% of UK online retailers believe AI shopping agents are already buying on their sites. Only 41% are confident about who pays when it goes wrong. What to fix this quarter.
VITALOS · 3 JUN 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Engineering note
A chatbot that gets tricked says something silly. An agent that gets tricked does something. A practical security model for AI agents, MCP servers and the tools they can reach.
VITALOS · 14 MAY 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Insight article
Organisations waste around 24% of their cloud capacity while AI drives hosting costs up 12% a year. The fastest way to fund your AI ambitions may be the servers nobody is using.
VITALOS · 29 APR 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Engineering note
A backdoored release of one of the world's most popular JavaScript libraries was live for about three hours. Here are the controls that would have kept it out of your builds.
VITALOS · 22 APR 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Insight article
AI can now read COBOL faster than any consultant alive. That makes legacy modernisation cheaper to start. It does not make migration easy. Here is where the line sits.
VITALOS · 10 MAR 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Insight article
UK logistics operators have moved AI from pilot to live operations inside single sites. The next leap is optimising across the whole network, and that is a data and integration problem first.
VITALOS · 24 FEB 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Point of view
New government research finds three in four UK AI adopters report productivity gains, yet 77% see no change in revenue. That gap is the most important number in British AI right now.
VITALOS · 5 FEB 2026 · 5 MIN READ
Guide
Quantum computers that break today's encryption may be years away. The NCSC's deadline to know where your cryptography lives is 2028. Here is how to start without boiling the ocean.
VITALOS · 13 JAN 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Guide
Every AI demo looks good. The question is whether it still looks good on the 500th real case, at 2am, with messy data. A practical method for evaluating AI before production.
VITALOS · 25 NOV 2025 · 5 MIN READ
Executive briefing
The 10 Year Health Plan promises a single patient record in the NHS App from 2028. The national detail is still to come, but the interoperability choices made today will decide who is ready.
VITALOS · 14 OCT 2025 · 4 MIN READ
Point of view
Plenty of tools now call themselves AI agents. Far fewer are. Five questions that separate real agentic capability from a chatbot or RPA script in a new jacket.
VITALOS · 17 SEP 2025 · 5 MIN READ
