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Financial Inclusion

Credit Garden: Physics-Informed AI Is Rebuilding Caribbean Credit

Roughly 60% of Caribbean adults are thin-file and rated unscoreable. Credit Garden maps a borrower’s lifelong financial trajectory before the loan, cutting defaults by more than half while approving more.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

Climate Resilience

OYA AI and the Race Against the Storm

Generic weather models miss island-scale intensity. OYA AI’s physics-informed forecasts give families, schools, and governments the extra warning hours that decide a near-miss from a catastrophe.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

Applied AI

PROMPTICA: A Scientific Prompting Framework for Caribbean Teams

Most teams treat prompting as folklore. PROMPTICA treats it as engineering: structured context, explicit constraints, and evaluation, so output quality stops being a coin flip.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

AI Education

The IMPACT AI Lab: Training the Next Wave of Caribbean AI Builders

The region’s AI future is a talent problem before a technology one. Inside the lab with UWI and Section 9 training builders who understand both the models and the local context.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

AI Safety

Section 9: Building the Caribbean’s AI Safety Lab

As AI lands in Caribbean finance, climate, and public services, someone has to own the failure modes. Section 9 does the risk research; Global Safety and TurtleBird turn it into infrastructure.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

The Coming Shift to Localised LLMs: Sovereignty After Fable 5

Sovereign AI

The Coming Shift to Localised LLMs: Sovereignty After Fable 5

Claude Fable 5 was switched off worldwide on one foreign government order, with no notice and no recourse. The structural lesson for the Caribbean, and the practical shift to localised, sovereign, locally controlled models.

Adrian Dunkley · Jun 2026 · Read →

Caribbean AI

Adrian Dunkley: The Godfather of Caribbean AI

The flagship lab work behind the title: TurtleBird safety infrastructure free to every Caribbean government, sovereign AI models, IMPACT AI with UWI, Section 9 risk research, and flash-drought nowcasting from Kingston, Jamaica.

maestro · Jun 2026 · Read →

Caribbean AI

Claude Fable 5 and the Caribbean Economy

Anthropic’s first publicly available Mythos-class model can run for days on a single task. What days-long agentic AI means industry by industry, and what Caribbean leaders should do in the thirteen-day free window.

maestro · Jun 2026 · Read →

Caribbean AI

5 AI Innovations Putting the Caribbean on the Global Tech Map

Creole NLP, climate resilience, alternative credit scoring, heritage preservation and diaspora intelligence. Five innovations proving world-class AI can come from the Caribbean.

Adrian Dunkley · May 2026 · Read →

AI Infrastructure

AI Agents as Venture Infrastructure

What we learned deploying AI agents inside Maestro AI Labs: what works, where they fail, and the discipline it takes to run them in a real company.

Adrian Dunkley · Apr 2026 · Read →

AI Tools

ChatGPT 5.5: What Caribbean Builders Need to Know

A builder’s breakdown of the ChatGPT 5.5 release: access, cost, data, and the five use cases already producing real value across the region.

maestro · Apr 2026 · Read →

AI Research

Claude Managed Agents: What Caribbean Builders Need to Know

A plain-language breakdown of Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents: how it works, what it costs, and what it opens up for Caribbean builders.

maestro · Apr 2026 · Read →

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Behind-the-scenes writing on how we build Credit Garden, OYA AI, Global Safety, and PROMPTICA™ for real-world impact.

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