For the person who has to decide by Monday.
Not another newsletter about what a model can write. What is worth funding this quarter, what to stall, and what your board is about to ask you.
Six pieces worth your afternoon.Read time on every one.
Report
18 min read
Nine agent deployments: how the working ones were staffed.
The difference was never the model. It was who owned the thing on week six.
Essay
11 min read
Three futures for enterprise search in 2027. Which one are you funding?
One of them quietly deletes the intranet. Two of them keep your search box exactly where it is.
Briefing
7 min read
AI spend will keep climbing through 2026. Output probably will not.
What the budget lines say, and the gap between licences bought and hours saved.
Report
14 min read
Five ways to kill an AI pilot: the 2026 postmortem.
Twelve companies, four repeating failure patterns, and the question that predicts all of them.
Essay
9 min read
Small models are winning quietly. The benchmarks will be last to say so.
Where cheap models already beat expensive ones, and where that argument falls apart.
Briefing
6 min read
Two roads out of the 2026 skills squeeze. Is your team on either?
Hiring is neither of them.
One numbered issue a month.Ten minutes, then back to work.
Briefing No. 03
8 min read
The month the price of inference stopped being the story.
Three releases, one pricing change, and what each one means for a build you are already halfway through.
Briefing No. 02
7 min read
Procurement caught up with AI in 2026. Slowly.
What changed in the questions security teams are now asking vendors, and how to answer them.
Briefing No. 01
6 min read
Four questions to ask before you buy another seat.
The first briefing. A short, boring checklist that has saved teams a full budget cycle.
Two questions we work on.Not a tag cloud.
Program 01
Work After Automation
What actually happens to a team's day once the automation lands. We track the jobs that change shape, not the ones that disappear in a headline.
- Job design after the first agent
- The load that lands on middle management
- Training that survives the pilot
- Measuring hours, not licences
Program 02
The Model Economy
Where the money goes, who keeps it, and what that means for a company buying rather than building. Prices, dependencies and the cost of switching.
- Compute and the price curve
- Open weights in regulated work
- The real cost of switching vendors
- Where the margin actually sits
Not every idea needs eighteen minutes.
The shorter writing lives on the blog: field notes from the builds, the training rooms and the budget meetings. Same voice, fewer footnotes.
- Reports — the long ones, with the method attached.
- Essays — an argument we are willing to be wrong about.
- Briefings — one numbered issue a month, ten minutes flat.