The first post in a series on what we've learned shipping and supporting Scensei OPTIMA on-premises. On-premises deployments come with a support dynamic that cloud-hosted products rarely face: when something goes wrong, you often cannot access it yourself, if you’re not physically present at the customers’ premises. What the reality often looks like Some problems cannot be moved to the cloud. The organizations we work with build systems that model the physical world in high

Today, we begin a series on AI-driven simulation and defense spanning posts, blog articles, and related formats. And, frankly, it feels a bit déjà vu. At Scensei, we’ve been working in this space for more than fifteen years, going back to our time at the Center for Computational Social Science at George Mason University. Back then, under Donald Rumsfeld and the era of Department of Defense-led human, social, cultural, and behavioral modeling the atmosphere felt thick with m