Briefings
Executive briefings
Long-form, sourced and dated. Each briefing carries a byline, a sources list with URLs, and at least one original table, calculation or diagram drawn for the Zimbabwean case.
- Vendor due diligence for AI in regulated Zimbabwean sectors
The Reserve Bank's August 2025 guideline reads as if it were written for AI vendors. This briefing turns its third-party section, the Act's processor rules and SI 155's written-contract requirement into a twelve-criterion scoring table, a list of contract clauses, and the questions that end most vendor conversations early.
- Data residency: where can a Zimbabwean enterprise legally run AI?
Section 28 of the Act, the Reserve Bank's cloud paragraphs and the size of the international link all point the same way. This briefing sets out the law, the facilities that exist, a decision path drawn as a diagram, and a worked classification of a bank's data classes into hosting patterns.
- What Zimbabwe's National AI Strategy 2026–2030 changes for a CIO
The strategy was approved by Cabinet in October 2025 and launched by the President in March 2026. It creates direction, bodies and a sandbox, and no legal obligations. This briefing reads it for an enterprise: what to expect, what still binds you, and five things to do now.
- AI in mine operations: from cameras to decisions
A mine's model produces a physical action. This briefing draws the sensor-to-decision pipeline, states what must run at the edge given Zimbabwe's grid and links, and separates event detection (low exposure) from identification (biometric data, written consent, notification).
- Running LLMs inside a Zimbabwean bank: what has to be true first
Before the first prompt reaches a customer record, seven things must already be true: some are the Reserve Bank's, some are POTRAZ's, and two are simply engineering. A gate table, and an illustrative cost calculation that shows why most banks end up with two hosting patterns.
How to read theseEvery statutory reference is to a gazetted text or an RBZ, POTRAZ or IPEC publication linked in the sources. Where a figure is our own worked example it is labelled "illustrative". See the editorial policy.