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When AI Actually Makes Sense for Your Business

Most AI initiatives fail before a model is ever trained — because nobody priced the decision the model was supposed to improve.

AI StrategyMay 20267 min readRead the essay →

April 2026The Hidden Cost of Legacy SystemsThe line item you can see is maintenance. The ones you can't are the deals you didn't win and the people who quietly left.Modernization6 min April 2026Building Products That Scale Beyond MVPThe MVP got you signal. It also got you architecture, habits and shortcuts that will fight you for years if you let them.Product8 min March 2026Automation Before HeadcountHiring to absorb a broken process scales the breakage. The discipline is to automate the process before you staff it.Operations5 min February 2026Why Most Digital Transformations FailNot from bad technology. From transformation programs designed to demonstrate activity rather than change decisions.Transformation9 min January 2026Discovery Is Not a PhaseTreating understanding as a gate to pass through — rather than a muscle to keep using — is how confident teams build the wrong thing.Method6 min December 2025Build, Buy, or WaitThe build-versus-buy debate misses the third option that's right more often than either: deliberately doing nothing yet.Strategy7 min November 2025Measuring What Matters in ProductDashboards multiply. Decisions don't. A metric that has never changed a decision is decoration.Product5 min October 2025Getting AI Out of the Pilot PhaseThe graveyard of enterprise AI is full of successful pilots. The gap between demo and deployment is organizational, not technical.AI Strategy8 min September 2025Designing for Operators, Not DemosSoftware bought in conference rooms gets used at loading docks, nursing stations and trading desks. Design for the second room.Design6 min August 2025The Quiet ROI of Internal ToolsCustomer-facing products get the budget and the glory. The spreadsheet holding your operation together gets neither — and costs more.Operations5 min July 2025Technical Debt Is a Business DecisionEngineers didn't create most of your technical debt. Deadlines did. Treating it as an engineering problem keeps it unfixable.Engineering6 min

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