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How to Build an AI Operating System for Business Growth
A practical method for turning one costly growth workflow into a governed AI loop, proving value quickly, and consolidating tools around it.
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How Product Leaders Should Respond to Frontier AI Launches
A practical framework for deciding which frontier AI launches to ignore, watch, test, or adopt based on product evidence rather than hype.
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Before You Renew Software, Audit the Agent Workflow
A practical workflow audit for deciding which software capabilities to renew, unbundle, build, or make portable before the next enterprise contract.
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AI Citation Integrity Checks: A Workflow Editors Can Trust
A practical design and rollout guide for citation checks that catch integrity risks before peer review without overwhelming editors with weak alerts.
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Planning Product Strategy Around Rapidly Falling AI Costs
A practical framework for modeling AI unit economics, sequencing cost-sensitive bets, pricing usage, and building defensible products as inference gets cheaper.
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How to Build an AI Strategy as Costs Fall and Tools Multiply
A practical framework for selecting, integrating, governing, and retiring AI tools as capability prices fall faster than planning cycles.
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Designing AI Products for Chip and Platform Volatility
A practical framework for choosing AI infrastructure, testing provider claims, and building exit paths before platform shifts reach customers.
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AI Churn Prediction: From Risk Scores to Retention Action
A practical operating model for defining churn risk, routing interventions, choosing whether to build or buy, and proving retention impact.
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How AI Engineering Leaders Should Run Competing Bets
A practical model for running parallel AI engineering bets, comparing them fairly, choosing on evidence, and converging without political fallout.
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The Real Economics of Self-Hosting Frontier AI Models
A practical break-even framework for deciding when token volume, model quality, platform staffing, and utilization justify owning AI infrastructure.
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Frontier AI Updates: A Product Leader’s Adoption Playbook
A practical framework for turning model, inference, open-weight, agent, and multimodal releases into measured product and architecture decisions.
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Chinese Frontier AI Models: A Product Leader’s Decision Guide
A practical framework for choosing Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8 Max, or DeepSeek V4 Flash by completion reliability, accepted-result cost, and product fit.
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SpaceX Orbital AI: How to Evaluate the Revenue Case
A practical framework for separating SpaceX’s reported AI revenue from the technical and economic proof required to scale orbital compute.
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Embodied AI: A Product Leader’s Guide to Generalist Robotics
Use a task-first framework to choose embodied AI workflows, measure useful autonomy, design safety boundaries, and make a sound robotics investment.
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Enterprise AI Ownership: What Your Company Must Control
A practical framework for deciding which AI assets, learning loops, contracts, and platform layers your enterprise must control as models change.
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AI Video Generation Advances: A Product Leader’s Playbook
A practical framework for turning gains in video coherence, control, and open-source access into workflows, evaluations, and sound product bets.
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Cost-Aware AI Model Selection: Pay for Accepted Work
A practical framework to compare AI models by accepted-result cost, test quality, choose hosting, and route production work with safe fallbacks.
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Old-School Selling Beats PLG in the AI Era: My GTM Playbook for 8‑Day Enterprise Deals
Old-school, in-person selling still beats product-led motions in the AI era because enterprise buyers reward teams who show up and de-risk change. I share how to…
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Beyond the Product Builder Hype: How AI, org design, and joy shape PM success
Is the product builder wave a mandate or a useful tool? I unpack how to use coding and AI in product management without causing organizational chaos.…
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Unleashing Inbound Sales with AI: My Playbook for Launching and Scaling Sales Agents Fast
Inbound sales shouldn’t wait in queues, and AI finally gives us a way to act on buyer intent in real time. The Sales Agent Blueprint is…
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