The race to build the smartest model isn’t over. However, for most businesses, winning it stopped being the point. The model is becoming electricity The frontier keeps advancing, and for a handful of hard problems, capability gaps still matter. But for most business work, capable models now come from four or five labs, at a … Read more
The people who laid the transcontinental tracks knew how a railroad worked. Not from a manual. From laying the tracks. But that is the part we are about to lose. Everyone gets promoted at once The pitch for agentic AI is that your people move up a level. Stop chopping onions, start writing the recipe. … Read more
Disruption is the word everyone reaches for. I’m not a fan. Open any strategy deck and it is there. AI will disrupt your industry. Disrupt your workflows. Disrupt everything. The word is everywhere because it feels true. Something big is happening, and disruption is how we have learned to name big things. But look at … Read more
The capability is real. AI can write, summarize, research, code, classify, compare, draft, and decide faster than any team could have imagined a year ago. So the disappointment feels strange: the tools are better, the output is larger, the demos are stronger, the spend is real. And yet, for many teams, the productivity gain still … Read more
If you swapped out your AI tomorrow for a newer, smarter one, how much of your work would actually survive the switch? For most of us, the honest answer is: not much. We treat AI as a conversation. You open a chat, explain everything, get a useful answer, then start over the next day. The … Read more
AI has made the old transformation question sharper. If you run a mature company, do you keep repairing the legacy operating model or build an AI-native one beside it? For most incumbents, the answer is not either/or. It is a transformation and a twin. One model keeps the business reliable, compliant, and profitable. The other learns how … Read more
AI has a supply side and a demand side. Most conversations start and finish on supply: models, tools, agents, and platforms. But capability is only half the equation. What is the demand side of AI? This matters now because the spending is lopsided. Most budgets still pour into supply, mirroring the market’s heavy capex on … Read more
The most powerful frontier models in the world aren’t being held back by compute. They’re being stopped dead in their tracks by corporate accountants. And with good reason! This isn’t disruption. It’s revelation. AI didn’t break corporate finance; consumption pricing always meant this. We just couldn’t see it until the bill arrived. For thirty years, … Read more
In transformation programmes, efficiency gains are low hanging fruit. A dirty word within today’s glorious growth agenda. But what if efficiency IS a growth enabler. What then? Look, every time we get better at using something, we end up using more of it, not less. It’s what consumers do. James Watt made the steam engine … Read more
We are in a constant state of transformation: digital, operational, cultural, AI, brand. It is hitting everyone, everywhere, all at once. It is simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. I’ve been a technologist for the majority of my career, moving from builder to architect to leader. I never really traded one hat for another; I simply kept … Read more