AI Strategy Consulting: What to Look for (and What to Avoid)
How to evaluate AI strategy consulting firms before you hire one. What good AI advisory looks like, what the red flags are, and why most engagements fail.
Read more →The Field Report
Dispatches on AI, trade, and strategy from the field.
Death by a Thousand Cuts — The Real SaaS Threat
The end-of-SaaS debate is missing the point. The real threat isn't someone copying your product. It's a thousand quiet cancellations from people who discovered they can reach the same outcome themselves.
Read more →What Is a Fractional Chief AI Officer?
What a fractional chief AI officer does, who hires one, and why most companies need a fractional CAIO before they need a full-time AI executive.
Read more →AI Change Management: Why Most Implementations Stall at the Pilot
The pilot worked. The demo impressed the board. Then nothing happened. Most AI implementations fail not because the technology doesn't work, but because nobody planned for the humans.
Read more →What a Room Full of Cattle People Taught Me About AI
I spent a week in Guadalajara presenting to 70 livestock genetics professionals about AI adoption. What they taught me about AI change management was more valuable than anything I showed them.
Read more →Claude Code and Codex: Shared Memory Across Models
Both AI coding assistants now share context through a single Obsidian MCP server
Read more →AI Implementation for Business: A Practical Guide from a Fractional Chief AI Officer
A practical guide to AI implementation and AI change management for established businesses. No hype, no demos that go nowhere. Real AI transformation consulting strategies for leaders who want AI that actually works.
Read more →Small Tools, Loosely Joined
Using the summarize CLI alongside Claude Code for a smarter AI workflow
Read more →The AI Adoption Gap
Kevin Roose on the growing divide between AI power users and everyone else
Read more →The Day Expertise Became Infrastructure
Vercel's skills.sh lets anyone package expertise as executable skills for AI tools. 20,000 downloads in six hours. Expertise becomes infrastructure.
Read more →My To-Do List Is Now a Conversation
I keep a file in Obsidian called "whats-next." It's where tasks, ideas, and random thoughts go to live until I do something about them.
Read more →The Real AI Superpower Isn't Technical
A scientist friend once told me something that stuck: "The most important words in science aren't 'Eureka, I found it.' They're 'Hmm, that's funny.'"
Read more →AI Workflow Automation: How I Replaced 10 SaaS Tools in One Day
Real-world AI workflow automation using Claude Code. How I completed a 10-tool workflow in two hours without opening a single interface—and how you can too.
Read more →CLAUDE.md File: The Complete Guide to Claude Code Setup
Learn how to create a CLAUDE.md file for Claude Code setup. Includes a free template and step-by-step guide to building the context infrastructure that makes AI actually useful.
Read more →The Future of Computing Doesn't Look Like 1985
Anthropic Cowork brings Claude Code's power to everyone. Same capabilities, accessible interface. The future of computing without 1985 vibes.
Read more →Heading to Atlanta for the International Poultry Council
Thanks to Caroline Leroux and the International Poultry Council for inviting me to join the global team of expert speakers and panelists in Atlanta on January 25–26.
Read more →The Angry Emails About Synthetic Research
I sent a study to close to 2,000 newsletter subscribers. Got some furious emails back. Unsubscribes. Barely contained anger.
Read more →Feedback Loops and Field Work
Early start this morning. On my way to Washington, DC to meet with one of our synthetic research pilot clients for feedback and training.
Read more →How to Use Claude Code: From AI Tool to Operating System
Learn how to use Claude Code to replace browser tabs, automate workflows, and transform AI from a chatbot into infrastructure you work inside daily.
Read more →The Government Flipped the Food Pyramid and Nobody Cares
U.S. government flipped food pyramid. Synthetic research shows immediate skepticism, trust erosion, and zero behavior change planned.
Read more →Mockup Sites Are Cooked
Claude Code builds functional prototypes faster than mockup sites render fake screenshots. The gap between showing and building collapsed to zero.
Read more →When Trade Publications Start Paying Attention
Food Industry Executive coverage signals shift from 'is AI research real' to 'how do we implement this correctly.' That's progress.
Read more →Focus Groups Are Just Improv With Snacks
Focus groups give you performances, not insights. We tested the same product both ways and got radically different results.
Read more →We Tested 2026's Food Trends and Most Are Garbage
Tested 16 buzziest 2026 food trends with synthetic personas. Five are real, nine need proof, two are pure hype. Most don't move product.
Read more →Everyone Says Beef Tallow Is the Next Big Thing. Consumers Disagree.
We tested the 2026 beef tallow trend with digital twins. Reality check: consumers aren't swapping olive oil for steakhouse smells.
Read more →When Frustration Becomes a Product
Built synthetic research platform when good data was too slow and expensive. Now 95% alignment with human panels at fraction of cost.
Read more →We Tested Whole Foods' Fiber Prediction. They Were Half Right.
Tested Whole Foods' fiber trend prediction with digital twins. They got the direction right but missed key nuance: consumers want real food.
Read more →The LinkedIn Phrases That Need to Die
LinkedIn has a content pollution problem. Three phrases dominate: 'But nobody talks about this,' 'Breaking,' and 'How to win at GEO.'
Read more →What We're Building
Building AI tools for food and agriculture that solve real problems: faster research, better data, and accessible insights for critical decisions.
Read more →"Can Synthetic Research Be Trusted?" Is the Wrong Question
The question isn't whether AI can do research. It's whether you're using rigorous methodology, proper calibration, and validation.
Read more →September Consumer Sentiment: What the Data Shows
Monthly consumer sentiment tracking across Canada and the U.S. reveals what official economic indicators miss about real spending behavior.
Read more →When GDP and Sentiment Move in Opposite Directions
Consumer sentiment dropped to 58.2 while GDP hit 3.0 percent. The disconnect reveals how people make buying decisions during economic uncertainty.
Read more →Why the U.S. Is Racing Ahead and Canada Isn't
U.S. organizations treat innovation as competitive advantage. Canadian groups too often gatekeep. The gap shows up in outcomes.
Read more →Why Synthetic Research Will Be Normal in 12 Months
Here's why synthetic research will be the new normal 12 months from now: your "definitive" market report is often outpaced before the deck hits the table.
Read more →Yukon Farmers Get Less Than One Percent
Less than one percent of Yukon's government food spending goes to local farmers. A missed opportunity for food security and local economy.
Read more →Canada's $100M Food Security Bet
Wittington launches $100M fund for Canadian food security. $5-10M deals focused on infrastructure and everyday essentials, not sexy tech.
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