The AI Was the Cheap Part.
Before you approve the AI budget, check what it leaves out. The real cost of AI is everything you build around the model. Here is how to find it.
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The Frontier Hit the Brakes. Your Excuse Just Expired.
Saturday, Anthropic’s CEO asked his own industry to slow down. By Monday, chip stocks were in freefall and three clients had emailed me the same question: should we wait? No. Read the reason instead of…
Nobody Offboards an AI Agent
When a contractor rolls off your team, a clock starts — badge, VPN, repos, mailbox. Somebody signs a form. Now answer this: when you give an AI agent access to your systems, what’s your process…
AI Got 280x Cheaper. Your Bill Didn’t.
A client asked me whether he should delay his AI project another quarter and let model prices fall further. Wrong question. Per-token pricing has fallen as much as 280-fold since 2022, and enterprise AI budgets…
The App Store for AI Just Opened. Your Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for It.
For two years the AI market was a bake-off over whose app was smarter. A quiet standard called MCP just changed the question entirely from “which AI app should I buy?” to “can my business…
Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Budget in Four Months. The Real Lesson Isn’t About Money.
In April, Uber admitted it spent its full 2026 AI budget in four months — and its own COO couldn’t connect the spend to customer value. The easy read is “AI is expensive.” That read…
7 Questions to Answer Before You Start Shopping for AI
Before you sit through a single AI vendor demo, answer these 7 questions. A field-tested readiness checklist from 20+ years of enterprise AI work.
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How to Write an AI Business Case Your CFO Will Actually Approve
Most AI business cases die in the CFO’s inbox — not because the idea is bad, but because the document reads like a vendor brochure with a price tag stapled to it. After 20 years…
9 Questions to Ask an AI Vendor Before You Sign Anything
Last month I sat across from a CEO who’d just signed a $340,000 AI contract that was already failing. He didn’t miss the warning signs — he was never equipped to see them. After 20+…
The Silent Killer of AI Projects: Why Infrastructure Fails Before AI Does
After 20 years leading enterprise technology at IBM and Kyndryl, I’ve seen the same pattern destroy AI initiatives at Fortune 100 companies and small businesses alike. The AI model works. The infrastructure underneath it doesn’t.…