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There are 14 stages of AI adoption. You skip to 11.
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

There are 14 stages of AI adoption. You skip to 11.

Alex Lieberman mapped 14 stages of AI adoption after 14 months with executives. Most companies skip the first ten and start by building. Then they stall.

AI adoption AI maturity AI transformation
AI price per token lies. Measure cost per job.
Business Strategy
· 5 min read

AI price per token lies. Measure cost per job.

Gemini 3 Flash is listed 80% cheaper than GPT-5.4 and costs 38% more to run. The list price is marketing. The bill depends on how many tokens each model burns.

AI costs AI economics model selection
Your most certain expert blocks AI adoption
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Your most certain expert blocks AI adoption

Altman said the most credible scientists held AI back through certainty. The same thing happens in your company: the surest person is often the biggest brake.

AI adoption Sam Altman change management
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 are in the tool business. Charging for the outcome forces the change.

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 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 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. In the AI era, belief corrects 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, not agents turned loose.

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