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Redundant: A Novel of Cloud Cost, AI, and Corporate Survival
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Publisher: Discursive
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Redundant is a corporate technology thriller about artificial intelligence, cloud spending, workplace power, and the human consequences of decisions made in the name of efficiency.
Rob Coleman runs FinOps for a global company responsible for moving vaccines and other critical medicines. His job is to understand the company's enormous technology bill: which systems are essential, which are duplicated, and which have remained online because no executive wants to admit they are no longer needed. Rob can see what the company actually costs, but as a director several levels below the executives making the decisions, he has little authority over what happens next.
When Rob is unexpectedly summoned to a high-level cost meeting, he discovers that the company is preparing for a secret acquisition. His analysis of three overlapping technology platforms has become central to the deal-and to an ambitious plan to eliminate jobs, consolidate operations, and invest billions in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The prospective buyer wants the unvarnished numbers. Rob's own leadership wants a cleaner story.
Caught between them, Rob must decide whether telling the truth will protect the company or simply provide a more credible justification for dismantling it.
As executives compete to control the acquisition narrative, Rob uncovers altered presentations, contradictory financial records, concealed operational failures, and evidence that someone inside the company may be manipulating the AI systems responsible for routing life-saving shipments. What begins as a contentious budget review becomes a high-stakes investigation into corporate deception, technological overconfidence, and deliberate sabotage.
With the help of colleagues who are risking their own careers, Rob follows the evidence from executive conference rooms and private Slack channels to secret meetings, compromised systems, and a threat extending far beyond the company's balance sheet. Every discovery forces him to confront the same question: when a business decides that people, safeguards, and entire systems are redundant, who determines what can safely be cut?
Blending corporate satire, financial intrigue, and technological suspense, Redundant explores the dangerous distance between what a dashboard measures and what a system truly protects.
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