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Last week I showed the demand numbers for AI consultancy are dire. This week a veteran operator explained the part I missed: the demand isn't dead, it's mute. Nobody buys AI. They buy outcomes, told concretely enough to defend to a board.

A friend said it should be a business. I spent forty years around operations and resilience, so I assessed it honestly, decided it was not, and built it anyway, for free. Here is the reasoning, and why the map of your estate should be a file no company owns.

A $1,000-an-hour AI consultancy playbook is doing the rounds. The demand data, and a friend who sells everything except this, disagree.

The third in a series. The performed self is a building you put up because contact with the real one was unbearable. Stopping it from falling down is why you are so tired.

Anthony de Mello said you know someone has been brainwashed because they get angry when you challenge their beliefs. Social media and AI have made the condition almost universal.

Self-awareness that doesn't produce contact with other people has gone bad. Dostoevsky figured this out in 1864.

When 100,000 new apps launch every day, competing on volume is suicide. Here's what I'm doing instead.

GPT-5.4 launched at $2.50/$15 per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.6 holds at $5/$25. The mid-tier is where the real battle is happening. Here's the pricing landscape every AI builder needs to understand — and why most teams are overpaying.

How I built a zero-cost, air-gapped email triage system — and why every AI agent setup with email access is a ticking time bomb.

Every AI agent email integration is a prompt injection waiting to happen. I built a zero-cost air-gapped system, then attacked it myself. Here's what happened.

I scanned 41 SaaS products for AI visibility. 85% are completely invisible to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Here's why — and how to fix it.

Conventional wisdom says 11 products need 11 social accounts. I asked 5 AI systems for advice. They all gave the same answer: hub-and-spoke. Here's the strategy I'm betting on.

Most AI products default to "safe" models. That safety is costing you thousands. Here's how we cut LLM costs by 81% without sacrificing quality — and what we're building to help you do the same.

It's 7:01 AM in Brooklyn. Jamie just typed "Yes sounds good" and headed to the office. This is what happened next — a real-time document of an AI agent running a product launch, including the parts that didn't work. Steal what's useful.

Every solopreneur's tech stack has a dirty secret: half the tools you're paying for are glorified templates. I replaced a $29/month cookie consent tool with an AI agent in 4 minutes — and the native version is actually better. Here's the bigger pattern, and how you can do it too.

The honest story of what happens when you give an AI agent real access to your codebase, your finances, and permission to tell you the truth. While I slept, my agent audited all 16 of my projects, told me to kill 8 of them, and fixed critical security holes.

How an AI agent made me stop coding — and why that's the best thing that's happened to my business. 16 products, zero revenue, and the uncomfortable truth about what solo founders actually need.

I Rewrote My Signup Page Today. No Idea If It'll Work. I spent two hours today rebuilding my signup page based on a framework I read about 20 years back. It ...

Your Best Feature Is Worthless If Nobody Knows About It How I almost shipped a major competitive advantage that was completely invisible to customers --- I s...

I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane) TL;DR: My crypto trading bot is averaging small daily ga...