Writing
Essays, tools, and diagnostics on regulated-industry AI, platform architecture, and what actually scales in production.
Your beta users are lying to you. Your synthetic ones won't.
Real user research structurally excludes the people most likely to tell you what's broken. Synthetic focus groups plus behavioral eval personas close the gap. 30 minutes, under $2, before anyone knows you're building it.
Is This Workflow AI-Ready? 3 Questions
A two-minute self-check before you fill out the full Scorecard.
Spec vs. Prompt: A Founder's Diagnostic
Five questions to know whether you have a specification problem or a prompt engineering problem.
The 30-Day Shippable AI Scorecard
A 10-minute worksheet to identify the one workflow in your business that fits the 30-day shippable AI profile.
A 30-Day Engagement: Federal Compliance Workflow Automation
A sanitized case writeup of a single-operator AI engagement that shipped three deliverables in one week.
The Ownership Dyad
Why AI programs at PE portfolio companies stall at the same organizational seam, and what to do about it.
The next chapter org psychology was always going to write
Multi-agent systems aren't disrupting organizational psychology. They're the latest in a century-long pattern of coordination technologies that have reshaped the discipline from the inside out.
AI Governance Infrastructure for Law Firms: What Policy Can't Catch
Where AI incidents in legal actually come from, and what infrastructure (not policy) prevents them.
JD-to-Reality Calibration Guide
Three questions to ask a corporate client before committing to an AI-leadership search.
Internal First, Portfolio Second
The sequencing mistake most PE firms make with AI programs. And the 90-day internal win that changes the calculus.
The IC Trap
Why assigning AI transformation to your best junior engineer is a rational decision that almost always fails.
The Healthcare AI Bypass Pattern
How the AI programs that actually ship in healthcare avoid the 18-month enterprise blocker cycle. And when the bypass doesn't work.
Harness Engineering
Why production AI is 90% harness and 10% model. And what most pilots miss.
Governance-as-Design
Eval, audit, and rollback as design inputs for clinical-adjacent AI. Not review-stage checkboxes.
5 AI Wins Under $10K for Owner-Operated Businesses
What 30-day shippable AI actually looks like in practice. Five examples from businesses like yours.
An Agentic-Product Research Teardown
What synthetic user research revealed that real-user research couldn't, and what the product team should have done differently.
Specs, not prompts: from harness engineering to hive mind
Spec-driven AI orchestration is the architecture that compounds at portfolio scale, not prompt engineering. The infrastructure shift parallels Terraform for infrastructure, declarative CI/CD, and Kubernetes for containers.