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Honest analysis of AI applied to real operations. No hype, just judgment: what you control, what you can prove, and what to build that your competitors can't.

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.

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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. The real call is how much to give it.

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Your marketing asks AI what to cut. Ask this instead.
AI in Marketing
· 7 min read

Your marketing asks AI what to cut. Ask this instead.

Box created 13 new AI roles, one to market to industries it couldn't staff before. The question isn't what AI lets you cut. It's what marketing it makes possible.

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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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