Matt Redlon — this stopped me cold. In 1998, I formalized a theory called Strand Commonality for procurement transformation: the idea that seemingly disparate strands of data have related attributes that collectively impact outcomes. The Canadian Government’s Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program funded it, and I operationalized it at the Department of National Defence — where it improved delivery performance from 51% to 97.3%.
The core insight was the same as your team’s: latent signals hide in the connections between data strands, not in the strands themselves. No governance framework at DND would have flagged “What time of day do orders come in?” — yet that single question exposed incentive misalignment, dynamic pricing risk, supplier constraints, and downstream service failure.
Seeing Mayo Clinic and Cerebras independently arrive at strand-based pattern recognition for genomics 27 years later — and name their AI model STRAND — is striking validation that this architecture transcends domains.
TODAY’S TAKEAWAY
Clarity shows you the map. Discoverability shows you what the map left out.
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The Mayo Clinic And Cerebras Names Their AI Model STRAND: Why The Procurement Industry Should Take Note
Posted on December 23, 2025
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Matt Redlon — this stopped me cold. In 1998, I formalized a theory called Strand Commonality for procurement transformation: the idea that seemingly disparate strands of data have related attributes that collectively impact outcomes. The Canadian Government’s Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program funded it, and I operationalized it at the Department of National Defence — where it improved delivery performance from 51% to 97.3%.
The core insight was the same as your team’s: latent signals hide in the connections between data strands, not in the strands themselves. No governance framework at DND would have flagged “What time of day do orders come in?” — yet that single question exposed incentive misalignment, dynamic pricing risk, supplier constraints, and downstream service failure.
Seeing Mayo Clinic and Cerebras independently arrive at strand-based pattern recognition for genomics 27 years later — and name their AI model STRAND — is striking validation that this architecture transcends domains.
TODAY’S TAKEAWAY
Clarity shows you the map. Discoverability shows you what the map left out.
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