About — SIGNAL4i

SIGNAL4i is an AI readiness intelligence publication for IBM i practitioners and enterprise operators navigating the transition to agentic AI. It exists because the IBM i practitioner is the most underestimated person in the AI economy — and because the readiness gap between adoption and governance is the most important business problem in the world right now.

The IBM i platform runs a disproportionate share of global commerce — banking, insurance, manufacturing, logistics, retail. The practitioners who understand it carry 30 years of institutional knowledge that no model can replicate. What most of them lack is not intelligence. It is a framework for connecting that intelligence to the agentic layer being built around it.

SIGNAL4i tracks the signals that close that gap.

What we cover

AI Readiness Signals

The Pegasus Signal Stack — 180+ signals across 14 categories — applied to the IBM i practitioner's operational reality.

Architecture Intelligence

MCP, Mapepire, PowerVS, and the stack IBM i has been waiting for. The connection layer between the intelligence floor and the agentic stack.

Modernization Signals

IBM i modernization patterns, vendor landscape shifts, and the competitive intelligence practitioners need before the decisions land.

Organizational Readiness

The tandem transformation thesis — technology and organizational change cannot run sequentially. What readiness actually looks like in practice.

What we don't cover

Vendor press releases dressed as analysis. Speculative migration timelines. Anything that treats IBM i modernization as a binary choice between legacy and replacement. The intelligence floor is real. The connection to the agentic layer is what needs building.

Who this is for

IBM i architects, developers, and platform owners navigating the AI transition. IT leadership at organizations running Power infrastructure. Practitioners who carry decades of institutional knowledge and need a framework for connecting it to what's being built around them.

If you are responsible for IBM i in an organization that is trying to figure out what AI means for your platform — this publication is written for you.

The publisher

Reggie Britt

Publisher · SIGNAL4i

Consumer finance executive and AI infrastructure researcher with 30+ years of IBM i experience. Reggie serves on the COMMON board of directors with AI as his board focus — a direct extension of the signal4i thesis into institutional IBM i governance. He is the publisher of the Pegasus Signal Stack, a 180+ signal registry tracking the gap between AI capability and organizational readiness across 14 categories. Previously founder of Compass Technologies, a LTO/lending software company built on IBM i.

reggiebritt.ai ↗ consumerfinance.ai ↗ common.org ↗ reggie@signal4i.ai

Connected research network

common.org ↗

COMMON Board of Directors The professional community for IBM i practitioners. Reggie joined the COMMON board effective May 1, 2026 with an AI-focused mandate — bringing the Signal4i readiness thesis directly into institutional IBM i governance.
reggiebritt.ai ↗

Sovereignty Thesis & Signal Stack The canonical home for the Pegasus Signal Stack and the broader sovereignty thesis. White papers including the Agentic Jevons Trap, the Sovereignty Dilemma, and the CapEx Reckoning.
consumerfinance.ai ↗

Consumer Finance Intelligence The Signal Stack applied to consumer lending — AI adoption, regulatory accountability, BNPL infrastructure, and the decisioning implications of agentic AI deployment in consumer finance.
signal4i.com

SIGNAL4i on Substack The intelligence brief — subscribe for signal-driven research delivered directly. Free. Eight volumes published. The Arc continues.

Tracking the gap between AI capability and organizational readiness — inside IBM i.

The IBM i practitioner is the most valuable person in the AI economy.