May 17, 2026

The Doers, The Watchers and a Two-Week Milestone

Depending on whom you talk to you get one of the three immutable truths about AI implementations: 1. The tooling is unstable, observability is difficult, and security is a nightmare 2. Whatever works is magical, but when the job depends

May 10, 2026

Moative Essay: The Two-Week Test

A physician owns seven clinics across two states. Revenue is up. Patients are growing. The newest location opened in March. On paper, the business is exactly what a founder hopes to build. She is also fifty-nine. Her children have their

May 3, 2026

Moative Essay: The Brownfield Tax

Anthropic acknowledged late April what Claude Code users had been complaining about for weeks. The product had been silently degrading. Product-layer changes around reasoning, caching, and prompt behavior had drifted in ways the people running it did not catch in

Apr 26, 2026

Moative Essay: Earl, Tom, and The Guild

Tom is a firefighter. Years ago, we built him what was basically an Excel-spreadsheet version of AI. No agents. No copilots. No white paper about the future of work. Just a thing that helped him make better decisions under pressure.

Apr 19, 2026

Moative Essay: Systems of Interia

Two of us write this newsletter, alternating Sundays. Every now and then, the shape is call and response: one week someone lays down a theme, the following week the other tries to answer. When that happens, most weeks the response

Apr 12, 2026

Moative Essay: Enterprise Grade is Dried Spit With A Budget

For most of business history, we have built organizations the way ants build apartment blocks. An ant does not have a design philosophy. It does not sit around wondering whether the plumbing stack should be elsewhere, or whether a load-bearing

Apr 5, 2026

Your AI readiness blindspot

Last week we talked about why users resist AI. An underwriter who has spent 20 years eyeballing equipment across categories, spotting label problems, cross-referencing auction data against economic signals, all while copying data into a spreadsheet, will push back when

Mar 29, 2026

Users resist. But why?

Let’s get past the obvious push-backs – both the unspoken and the vocal – to save one’s own job. That is understandable. But there is another. There is a pushback that comes not from fear of relevance but lack of

Mar 22, 2026

60 Days of Summer Coding

If you never wrote code, get a taste for it, but become a 10x operator by scaling how you analyze opportunities, model financial outcomes, reach out to partners, and sell a vision. I have been writing code, almost every day

Mar 22, 2026

Find the five gaps before spending on AI

Companies see charts, diagnose behavioral gaps, buy a stack of AI tools, launch training programs, and wait for productivity gains. Later, the executive teams wonder why the demo looked so good. Anthropic released a report last week that introduces a

Mar 8, 2026

AI Adoption: Observations from traditional industries

Our business model is unique. We build ventures in partnerships with midmarket companies in regulated and asset-heavy industries. But these ventures don't start as ventures on Day 1. They usually start as co-build/co-sell motions or consulting projects

Mar 1, 2026

Inertia Meets Existential Crisis

Orgs eventually redesigned how work was done. Hasn't happened yet with AI.