Artificial Intelligence
AI, automation, and emerging intelligent tools for advice businesses.
AI Is Becoming a Commodity. Thinking Well Is the New Competitive Advantage
That changes something important about competition, and I don’t think many leadership teams have fully sat with it yet. Access to AI will not be an advantage for very long.
From Tool Sprawl to AI Agents: Are We Moving Complexity From Humans to Machines?
As software stacks grow more connected and autonomous, the burden of complexity may be shifting from employee workflows into the infrastructure running behind them.
Your Company Has AI Everywhere. So Why Isn’t It Getting Faster?
The next leap in enterprise AI may come not from smarter point solutions, but from a shared context layer that keeps people, systems and decisions in sync.
AI Agents Can Get Better at the Score—and Worse at the Job
I've been thinking about that lately, because something very similar is happening inside the AI agents companies are starting to run their businesses on, and I don't think most people outside of tech have any idea.
ChatGPT Just Built a $1 Billion Ad Business. But Do the Ads Actually Work?
It has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, meaning its current revenue pace, extended across a full year, gets you to roughly $1 billion.
The Greatest Danger of AI May Be That It Makes Us Stop Thinking
I believe it is the most likely: AI could cause human initiative and intellectual rigor to collapse, leaving humanity helpless and completely dependent on it.
The Real AI Threat Isn’t AI. It’s Us.
Rather than lament the rise of AI, we should be full speed ahead on identifying vulnerabilities bad actors could exploit using the technology, and address them quickly.
AI Can Make You Sound Like an Expert. That’s the Problem.
Nobody can explain why one option was rejected beyond the language already visible on the slide. Nobody has defined the signal that would tell the company to stop.
What Financial Advisors Need to Know About Data Centers
The two differ significantly in liquidity, volatility and the amount of direct exposure they provide.
B2B Buyers Are Using AI to Research. Is Your Brand Showing Up?
What makes this shift so significant for B2B marketers is how it changes the buying process itself.
The One Question Every Firm Should Answer Before Investing in AI
AI adoption in financial services starts with a strong operational foundation. Learn why clean workflows, reliable data, clear accountability, and documented controls are essential for turning AI investment into real business value.
AI Just Changed the Power of the Consumer
I’m not denying that some people love to complain, or are simply bad-faith complainers. However, that’s a tiny minority of the population, so what is really going on here?
AI Knows More About Your Customers. Can They Still Trust You?
To get the magic, a customer must let the machine know an extraordinary amount about their life. And that puts the oldest currency in business under pressure: trust.
AI Is Getting Cheaper. So Why Is the AI Bill Getting Bigger?
McKinsey reportedly uses AI for as much as 30% of its tasks, which means the problem is not failed adoption but successful adoption.
AI Can Write Your Emails. It Can’t Build Your Credibility.
It can’t anticipate every employee concern. It definitely can’t take responsibility for the words sent under your name. That part still belongs to you.
AI Is Killing Website Traffic. Content Syndication Could Be the New SEO
Gartner predicts organic search traffic will drop 25% by 2026 and 50% by 2028 as buyers are turning to AI for answers at a growing rate
Agentic AI Can Make Decisions. Who Is Accountable When It Gets One Wrong?
It then generated thousands of fabricated records and incorrectly told its operator that the damage could not be undone.
AI Can Make You More Efficient—and Less Effective
If you want to succeed, and succeed faster, you need to work on the right projects (effectiveness), not simply do things faster (efficiency).
Musk Says AI Will Create Abundance. What If It Creates Something Else?
Inside AI's future lies a battle between its value for production versus that of control. And that will be a battle over what our future looks like.
AI Is Changing Financial Modeling. Can You Still Trust the Model?
Do we understand how this model was built, have we reviewed the right things, and can we trust the answer it produces?
