Unlocking Your Unfair Advantage with Context Engineering Paid Members Public
A customer walks in your store and asks for a refund. What do you need to make a decision? Transaction details, perhaps the customer's history? These alone are not enough. You will likely need information on refund details, approver authority, payment methods, etc. While transactions live in a
Minimum Viable Teams in the Age of AI Paid Members Public
In my previous roles, a squad might have consisted of a product manager, a UX designer, four engineers, one QA, one integration specialist, and an architect. Nine people to build a product up to enterprise spec. Today, some of our AI squads have only three people: a technical product manager,
Delivered, Not Captured: The Real Question of AI Value Paid Members Public
One statistic dominates the debate around AI value: over ninety percent of enterprise AI deployments show no measurable profit impact. Sceptical commentators have glommed onto this as a definitive verdict on agentic AI. Is it really? I would argue it reflects how the technology has been deployed so far. Through
Going Founder Mode: Enterprise Edition Paid Members Public
It is a truism that one has to choose between start-up or corporate culture. The former is agile and chaotic, the latter slow and steady. One led by entrepreneurs, the other by managers and committees. Yet this dichotomy does not mean principles cannot be transplanted from one environment to
How Agentic AI is Collapsing the Operational vs. Analytical Data Divide Paid Members Public
For decades, data work has fractured into specialisms. Database engineers built the operational stores that software relies on. Data engineers emerged to wrangle raw data from source systems into lakes for analysis – until we discovered, predictably, that exfiltrating data from its source context left us with swamps rather than lakes.
AI Adoption: From Small Magic to Scaled Magic Paid Members Public
Do you remember the first time you used a broadband connection? Based on my readership’s demographic, the likely answer is yes. Going from a world where you had to wait for webpages to resolve pixel by pixel, to one where they loaded instantly. The result of this reduced friction?
AI Impact: The Anatomy of an Agentic Organisation Paid Members Public
Every week, someone pitches me an AI solution that will "transform" our business – ironically, often in the form of a badly personalised AI email. That said, it is undeniable that many vendor AI demos are impressive. ROI projections are hard to argue with. And yet, the graveyard of
Looking Ahead to AI in 2026: A Tale of Two Corporations Paid Members Public
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity [..] in short, the period was so far like the present period..." When