AI Paralysis
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May 21, 2026
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7 min read
A third of your team's time goes to work nobody named and nobody tracks. It's the most expensive line item you've never seen.
Blueprint
6 min read
The signals were in five tools. Nobody was connecting them. £414,000 walked out while the team monitored from memory.
May 14, 2026
Your monthly numbers look precise. Three decimal places. Colour-coded charts. Built on data someone last updated two weeks ago.
Revenue recognition across 14 concurrent projects. One finance director. One spreadsheet. Three days of month-end archaeology.
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May 11, 2026
The task is too complex for anyone else and too infrequent for a new hire. So your most capable person does it. Every time.
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
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.
