Resources
Field notes on defensible software
How compliance-first teams design, ship, and defend AI and web systems in regulated industries.
- July 14, 2026 · Ricky Bitelman-Behar, JD
Building Defensible Systems from Day One
Defensibility is a design property, not a document. Five practices that make a system easier to defend when — not if — someone asks how it works.
Read article - July 10, 2026 · Ricky Bitelman-Behar, JD
The Rise of AI Forensic Auditing
Regulators and courts are converging on the same question: can you reconstruct what your AI did, and why? Forensic auditing turns that question from a panic response into a routine workflow.
Read article - July 5, 2026 · Ricky Bitelman-Behar, JD
Why Compliance-First Development Matters
Bolting compliance onto software after launch is more expensive, slower, and less defensible than building it in from the first commit. Compliance-first development treats regulatory requirements as functional requirements.
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