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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.

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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. How much should you give it?

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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.

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The pyramid before the agent: you almost never need one
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

The pyramid before the agent: you almost never need one

The 'AI consultant' title expires. What stays is a discipline: start with a deterministic workflow and climb to an agent only when the problem demands it.

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Kirkland Isn't Building a Model. It's Building a Layer.
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

Kirkland Isn't Building a Model. It's Building a Layer.

Kirkland & Ellis is putting $500M into AI and half of LinkedIn misread it: they aren't training a model, they're building the layer that sits on top of it.

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What Your Team Types Into AI Is Now Legal Evidence
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

What Your Team Types Into AI Is Now Legal Evidence

Two 2026 court rulings confirmed it: what your team types into ChatGPT or Claude is discoverable evidence. The problem isn't AI. It's having no policy.

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Claude runs a thousand agents. Judgment doesn't parallelize.
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

Claude runs a thousand agents. Judgment doesn't parallelize.

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 with Dynamic Workflows: hundreds of parallel subagents that check each other. The one thing that doesn't parallelize is judgment.

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He Sells AI Agents. He Told His Team to Stop Using Them
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

He Sells AI Agents. He Told His Team to Stop Using Them

Gumloop's founder told his team to stop automating everything with AI. The expensive failure of agentic AI isn't cost, it's the slop that loses customers.

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If Anthropic Doubled Prices Tomorrow, We Wouldn't Switch
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

If Anthropic Doubled Prices Tomorrow, We Wouldn't Switch

A CEO on the 20VC podcast killed a $600K Salesforce contract in 3 weeks and won't change Anthropic usage at 2x pricing. The moat moved to the workflow.

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