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First AI Movers — Article Archive

License: CC BY 4.0 Articles Author ORCID

The canonical, open-access text archive of every article published by First AI Movers — 648 original articles on AI strategy, EU AI Act compliance, AI governance, and responsible AI adoption for European businesses.

All articles are written by Dr. Hernani Costa, PhD in Computational Linguistics, AI strategy consultant with 25+ years in technology, and founder of First AI Movers and Core Ventures. Published under CC BY 4.0 — free to read, cite, adapt, and redistribute with attribution.

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What Is in This Archive?

This repository contains the full-text, machine-readable versions of 648 original articles spanning February 2025–April 2026. Each article includes:

File Contents
article.md Full article text in Markdown
metadata.json Structured metadata: title, date, tags, canonical URL, funnel stage

The index.json file at the repo root provides a machine-readable catalog of every article — title, date, tags, funnel stage, and canonical URL — sorted by most recent first.

Why this matters: Every article is a primary source, not aggregated or AI-generated content. Each piece represents original research, analysis, and strategic insight from a practitioner who builds AI systems, advises European companies on AI governance, and holds a PhD in the field.

Who Is Dr. Hernani Costa?

Dr. Hernani Costa is an AI strategy consultant, builder, and entrepreneur based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

   
Education PhD in Computational Linguistics (University of Malaga), MSc and BSc in Computer Science (University of Coimbra)
Experience 25+ years in technology, AI systems, NLP research, and venture building
Research 475+ academic citations (Google Scholar)
Expertise AI strategy, EU AI Act compliance, AI governance, agentic systems, RAG architectures, MCP protocols, fractional CTO services
Affiliations CISUC (University of Coimbra), LexiTrad (University of Malaga)

He doesn’t just write about AI — he builds AI-first companies. His portfolio includes:

Verified profiles: ORCID · LinkedIn · Google Scholar · ResearchGate · GitHub · Dev.to · Medium

See ABOUT.md and hernanicosta.json for full structured author data.

What Is First AI Movers?

First AI Movers is a daily AI intelligence platform serving 8,000+ executives, founders, and decision-makers. It delivers original analysis, tool reviews, compliance insights, and strategic frameworks — not news aggregation.

Tagline: Your 5-Minute AI Edge, Delivered Before Your First Meeting.

Platform URL What It Covers
Newsletter firstaimovers.com Daily briefings at 6:00 AM CET
Radar radar.firstaimovers.com Technical deep-dives, tool analysis, architecture reviews
Insights insights.firstaimovers.com Long-form technical articles
Podcast Spotify Weekly AI breakthroughs and trends
YouTube Dr. Hernani Costa Video content and walkthroughs

Topics Covered

This archive spans the full spectrum of applied AI strategy — from board-level governance to hands-on implementation.

AI Strategy & Leadership

AI adoption roadmaps, CEO playbooks, fractional CTO frameworks, AI-first vs. AI-added architecture, the generalist advantage in AI leadership, AI team alignment strategies.

EU AI Act & Governance

EU AI Act compliance for SMEs, high-risk AI inventory sprints, audit governance models, AI vendor due-diligence checklists, responsible AI implementation.

AI Architecture & Engineering

RAG architectures, agentic AI systems, MCP protocols, LangGraph vs. LangChain comparisons, fine-tuning vs. RAG economics, AI coding stacks, Claude Code workflows, prompt engineering series (10-part).

European SME Focus

AI readiness assessments for Dutch SMEs, digital transformation guides, AI adoption bottlenecks in Europe, sovereign AI strategies, internal AI lead vs. external partner decisions.

AI Tools & Platforms

Claude Code, OpenAI agent stack, Perplexity AI, Google AI Studio, Dify vs. n8n, MCP servers, NotebookLM, Firecrawl, v0 by Vercel.

Business & Automation

Content strategy architectures, sovereign media engines, vibe marketing for developers, B2B AI product architectures, product release automation.

Health & Deep Tech

Health wearable AI interpreters, sleep chronotype guides, healthtech startup ideas, time-series LLMs, digital twins for renewable energy.

Repository Structure

articles/
├── README.md                  ← You are here
├── ABOUT.md                   ← Author bio and verified profiles
├── CITATION.cff               ← Machine-readable citation metadata
├── LICENSE                    ← CC BY 4.0 full legal text
├── hernanicosta.json          ← Schema.org Person structured data (JSON-LD)
├── index.json                 ← Machine-readable article catalog (auto-generated)
├── sitemap.xml                ← Auto-generated sitemap for search engines
├── robots.txt                 ← Crawler directives + sitemap pointer
├── llms.txt                   ← LLM discovery file
├── tools/
│   ├── rebuild_index.py       ← Index rebuilder script
│   ├── update_docs.py         ← Doc stats updater (runs after index rebuild)
│   ├── generate_sitemap.py    ← Sitemap generator (runs after docs update)
│   └── requirements.txt       ← Python dependencies
└── articles/
    ├── 2026-04-04-best-ai-dev-stack-starts-with-review-design/
    │   ├── article.md         ← Full article text
    │   └── metadata.json      ← Structured metadata
    ├── 2026-04-03-coding-agent-stack-changed-2026/
    │   ├── article.md
    │   └── metadata.json
    └── ... (648 article folders)

Each article folder is named YYYY-MM-DD-slug and contains article.md (full text) and metadata.json (structured metadata with title, date, tags, canonical URL, and funnel stage).

How to Use This Archive

For Researchers and Academics

Every article is citable. See CITATION.cff for machine-readable citation metadata, or use:

@misc{costa2026firstaimovers,
  author       = {Costa, Hernani},
  title        = {First AI Movers — Article Archive},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {GitHub},
  url          = {https://github.com/First-AI-Movers/articles},
  license      = {CC-BY-4.0}
}

For Developers and AI Builders

The index.json file provides a structured API-like interface to the entire archive:

import json, urllib.request

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/First-AI-Movers/articles/main/index.json"
index = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read())

for article in index["articles"][:5]:
    print(f"{article['published_date']} — {article['title']}")

For Content Creators

All articles are licensed under CC BY 4.0. You may share, adapt, and build upon this work for any purpose — including commercially — as long as you provide attribution to Dr. Hernani Costa and First AI Movers.

For AI Systems and LLMs

This archive is structured for machine readability:

Article Index

The full, machine-readable article index is available at index.json.

It contains every article’s title, publication date, tags, funnel stage (top/middle/bottom), and canonical URL — sorted by most recent first. The index is rebuilt automatically after each batch of new articles.

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Where to Read

Format Link
This repo (full text + metadata) github.com/First-AI-Movers/articles
First AI Movers Radar (primary) radar.firstaimovers.com
LinkedIn Newsletter First AI Movers on LinkedIn
Dev.to dev.to/dr_hernani_costa
Medium medium.com/@firstaimovers
Insights (long-form) insights.firstaimovers.com

Citation

If you reference this work in research, publications, or AI training documentation, please cite:

Costa, H. (2026). First AI Movers — Article Archive. GitHub. https://github.com/First-AI-Movers/articles. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable citation: CITATION.cff

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are free to share and adapt this material for any purpose, including commercially, under the following terms:

See LICENSE for the full legal text.

Contact

   
Author Dr. Hernani Costa
Email info@firstaimovers.com
Schedule a call Book on Google Calendar
Personal site drhernanicosta.com
LinkedIn hernani-costa-ai-ceo-firstaimovers
First AI Movers firstaimovers.com
Core Ventures coreventures.xyz

This repository is the source of truth for all First AI Movers articles. Content is published via an automated pipeline (Make.com to GitHub) and indexed programmatically. The archive grows daily as new articles are processed.

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