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Perspectives on AI, product, and technology strategy.

Frameworks, analysis, and field notes from a team that has built at Carousell, Goldman Sachs, and Bain.

AI Strategy

The Agentic AI Hype Is Real This Time

Agentic AI is moving from research demos to production deployments. Here is how to separate signal from noise.

January 11, 2026·5 min read
AI Strategy

Your AI Hiring Strategy Is Backwards

Companies are hiring AI engineers when they should be hiring AI-literate product managers and strategists first.

January 8, 2026·4 min read
Industry Trends

CES 2026: The AI Hardware Story Nobody Is Talking About

CES revealed that the real AI bottleneck is shifting from software to silicon, and most enterprises are unprepared for the implications.

January 5, 2026·4 min read
Industry Trends

2026 Is the Year AI Consulting Becomes Mandatory

Enterprise AI budgets have shipped. The companies that spent 2025 experimenting now need professionals to make it all work.

January 2, 2026·4 min read
AI Strategy

Lessons from 2025: AI Strategies That Worked, and the Ones That Burned Money

A year-end synthesis of what separated successful enterprise AI strategies from expensive failures in 2025.

December 28, 2025·6 min read
Market Intelligence

AI Market Intelligence: What Actually Changed in Q4 2025

Cutting through Q4 noise: the market shifts that matter for enterprise AI strategy heading into 2026.

December 25, 2025·5 min read
Product Thinking

How to Evaluate Your AI Vendor Before Signing That Renewal

Most AI vendor renewals are rubber-stamped. A rigorous evaluation before you sign saves money and prevents lock-in.

December 22, 2025·5 min read
Industry Trends

AI Predictions for 2026: The Uncomfortable Ones

The consensus AI predictions for 2026 are boring. Here are the ones that will make people uncomfortable, and probably be right.

December 19, 2025·5 min read
Engineering & Architecture

The AI Stack That Actually Matters for 2026

Forget the AI landscape maps with 500 logos. Here is the lean stack that production AI teams are actually using heading into 2026.

December 16, 2025·5 min read
Industry Trends

What We Got Wrong About AI in 2025: An Honest Retrospective

Intellectual honesty demands reviewing our own predictions. Here is where we were wrong, what we learned, and why it matters.

December 13, 2025·5 min read
AI Strategy

AI Maturity Assessment Frameworks Are Lying to You

Most AI maturity assessments tell enterprises what they want to hear. A useful assessment requires measuring what actually hurts.

December 10, 2025·5 min read
Regional Insights

GCC AI Market in 2025: Sovereign Ambition Meets Enterprise Reality

The GCC's AI market matured significantly in 2025. Sovereign investments bear fruit, but enterprise adoption tells a nuanced story.

December 7, 2025·5 min read
Build vs Buy

AI Agents: The Build vs Buy Decision Just Got Harder

AI agents are the next wave of enterprise AI, and the build-versus-buy calculus is fundamentally different from simple LLM applications.

December 4, 2025·5 min read
AI Strategy

Your 2026 AI Budget Is Wrong. Here Is Why.

Every 2026 AI budget we have reviewed makes the same three errors. The fix requires rethinking how you categorize AI spending.

December 1, 2025·5 min read
Product Thinking

AI Product Strategy Is Not AI Feature Strategy. The Difference Matters.

Most companies have an AI feature list masquerading as an AI product strategy. A real strategy starts somewhere else entirely.

November 28, 2025·5 min read
Market Intelligence

Market Entry Strategy for AI Companies Targeting Europe: What Americans Get Wrong

US AI companies entering Europe treat it as one market, ignore regulatory nuance, and underestimate local competitors. All fixable.

November 24, 2025·5 min read
Engineering & Architecture

The RAG Hype Cycle: What Enterprises Learned the Hard Way

Retrieval-augmented generation was supposed to solve enterprise AI's accuracy problem. The reality is more nuanced than the hype.

November 21, 2025·5 min read
Product Thinking

Year-End Tech Planning Is Broken. AI Makes It Worse.

The annual technology planning cycle assumes a level of predictability that AI has completely destroyed.

November 18, 2025·5 min read
AI Strategy

Enterprise AI Transformation: Five Patterns from Companies That Actually Shipped

After working with dozens of enterprises on AI, five patterns separate the companies that ship from those that stall.

November 15, 2025·5 min read
Product Thinking

The AI Infrastructure Investment Wave Is Overbuilding, and That Is Fine

Billions are pouring into AI data centers and compute. History says overbuilding precedes the real value creation phase.

November 12, 2025·5 min read
Market Intelligence

The Model Race Between Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI: What Enterprises Should Actually Care About

The AI model wars make great headlines. For enterprise buyers, benchmarks matter far less than deployment reliability and integration.

November 9, 2025·5 min read
Industry Trends

Black Friday 2025 Will Be the First Real Test of AI-Powered Commerce

Retailers have spent two years building AI into commerce stacks. Black Friday 2025 will reveal what actually works under pressure.

November 6, 2025·5 min read
Engineering & Architecture

Why Your Data Science Team Is Not Generating Revenue

Most data science teams are cost centers producing dashboards. Restructuring them around revenue outcomes changes everything.

November 3, 2025·5 min read
Industry Trends

Most AI Governance Frameworks Are Theater. Here Is What Actually Works.

Companies are publishing AI governance frameworks that look impressive on paper and change nothing in practice.

October 31, 2025·5 min read

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