AI Paralysis
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May 11, 2026
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7 min read
The task is too complex for anyone else and too infrequent for a new hire. So your most capable person does it. Every time.
Blueprint
The work was done. Proving it takes six weeks of one person's year, every year, from seven different systems.
Tool Sprawl
May 4, 2026
6 min read
Every failed AI project has the same post-mortem. "The technology wasn't right for us." It was. The target wasn't.
A New York agency's expense policy was a 14-page PDF nobody reads, enforced by a finance director working from recall.
Apr 27, 2026
I noticed your company is growing fast." They get that 14 times a week. Here's what actually gets replies.
Not a targeting problem. The prospects were right. The message was wrong: the same template with a swapped first name.
Apr 20, 2026
That's not a compliment. That's a confession. Your most capable person is your most dangerous dependency.
QuickBooks told him what happened. Nothing told him what was about to happen. He found out the hard way last quarter.
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Apr 13, 2026
11 min read
Your tools hold data. They don't act on it. That gap is the work your team is doing - invisibly and expensively.
