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In AI, You Are What You Charge For, Not What You Install
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

In AI, You Are What You Charge For, Not What You Install

Joe Pine puts it bluntly: you are what you charge for. Charge for the tool and you're in the tool business. Charging for the outcome forces the change to actually happen.

transformation economy Joe Pine business model
SpaceX Automates Last. You Do It First.
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

SpaceX Automates Last. You Do It First.

The method SpaceX uses to redesign rockets puts automation dead last, after questioning, deleting, and simplifying. Most AI projects start exactly where it ends.

AI automation SpaceX process redesign
Someone Else Controls Your AI's Kill Switch
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Someone Else Controls Your AI's Kill Switch

On Friday a government switched off two frontier models for everyone. If your operation runs on a capability you don't control, you don't own a tool. You own a continuity risk.

business continuity vendor lock-in model routing
Your price is a loan against your customer's trust
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Your price is a loan against your customer's trust

Silvia Adlesic said it plainly: willingness to pay measures what the customer believes, not what you built. And in the AI era, belief gets corrected in 48 hours.

pricing strategy willingness to pay information asymmetry
Anthropic measured its own AI. Can you prove yours?
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Anthropic measured its own AI. Can you prove yours?

Anthropic says Claude writes most of its merged code and its engineers ship 8x more per quarter. The new line isn't who uses AI, but who can prove output.

Anthropic Claude AI metrics
A $1,500 cap on AI treats the symptom, not the cause
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

A $1,500 cap on AI treats the symptom, not the cause

Uber capped AI spend at $1,500 per person and one company burned $500M on Claude in a month. The cap treats the symptom. The cause is agents turned loose with no scope.

AI spending cap AI costs tokens
Peak AI confidence, and the downslope nobody owns
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Peak AI confidence, and the downslope nobody owns

Building AI has never been cheaper, so the bet is to build. But 95% of pilots move no P&L, and in most companies nobody owns the downslope of the curve.

Dunning-Kruger AI adoption AI transformation
Agent Autonomy Is a Liability, Not a Feature You Buy
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Agent Autonomy Is a Liability, Not a Feature You Buy

Cognition raised $1B at a $26B valuation for an autonomous coding agent. In production, autonomy is the first thing that breaks. The real call is how much to give it.

AI agents autonomous agents software architecture
Your agent invoiced $0.00. The logs never saw it.
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

Your agent invoiced $0.00. The logs never saw it.

A sales agent wrote a flawless $0.00 invoice for a 14-seat deal. The pricing API was correct. Every log was clean. Only the full execution trace explained it.

AI agents AI observability AI governance

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