Traffic down 33–38% and nothing broke. Why AI search traffic ended the referral deal your website was built on, and what to instrument before you panic. [Click on the image to view post]
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…
I spent 20 years running technology at IBM and Kyndryl leading 200+ engineers, governance boards, phased rollouts, the whole apparatus. That same enterprise playbook is quietly strangling AI projects right now. Not because the discipline…
I’ve sat in a lot of vendor demos. The slides are beautiful, the demo runs flawlessly, and nobody says a word about where your data goes or who can read it. That silence isn’t an…
The most dangerous sentence in AI right now is “the pilot was a success.” A failed pilot tells you the truth while the check is small. A successful one tells you a flattering lie—that the…
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…
A client wanted one number for getting “AI-ready” before our call ended. Three vendors had already given him one — and that’s exactly the problem. The number you’re quoted is almost always the model, the…
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. [Click on the image to view post]
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…
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+…