Reference case studies on how systems break and get rebuilt at scale, alongside our weekly notes on frontier research from the AI labs and the major firms' annual outlooks.
Working notes on papers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Transformer Circuits, and Stanford CGRI, read for what they imply about deploying agents and rebuilding workflows in real organizations.
We read the major firms' tech outlooks the way an operator does. Looking past the trend lists for the operating-model gap that determines who actually captures the gain. One synthesis per year, 2021 through 2025.
Our edge is that we read the source material directly and regularly, with the question every operator actually has in mind: what does this change about how the work gets done?
OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest. Read across their product announcements, interpretability work, and formal research. The leading indicator for what's about to be deployable in client workflows, and what's about to be unsafe in them.
Read with an operator's eye, not a strategist's. We look past the trend lists for the operating-model gap that determines who actually captures the gain.
Some operating-model lessons travel decades. We catalog the historical scale events (Tesla 2018, WeWork 2019, others) that still shape how we design for clients today.
Most of these reports describe a gap. We close gaps. The first conversation is short, specific, and free.