Moative Blog

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 trust in AI’s ability to do the job. For those with the vested interest – the companies that want to embrace AI and the ones that sell AI solutions – the resistance may seem antidiluvian. We tend to lump all resistance as resistance to change, as though AI is unmistakably perfect. I w

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 for the last 60 days. I had not written code even once since I started working 23 years ago. It feels like a portal has opened to the other side. Yesterday I installed ‘Claude Dispatch,’ the app for addicts. If you are a socially awkward software developer with just enough

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 new way to measure AI's impact on the labor market. They call it “observed exposure”: compare what AI could theoretically do with what people are actually using it for, measured from real Claude usage data in professional settings. The chart every

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 that we start for them. Occasionally our pre-built IPs come into play. (Related read: Buying Vs. Becoming AI) Through all these motions, we meet executives from a wide range of industries. In the last year, we have spent time with executives from

Mar 1, 2026

Inertia Meets Existential Crisis

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

Feb 22, 2026

Nobel Laureates, Economists, & the death of SaaS

The economics dictating SaaS's demise

Feb 8, 2026

Your AI System Can Explain Everything and Control Nothing

See it before it costs you

Feb 2, 2026

Your AI System Has a Half-Life. Know What It Is?

The real question is whether you built in a way that makes the next migration cheap

Feb 1, 2026

Decision traces - Who owns them? A Case for Enterprise Sovereign Systems

Invest in your sovereignty. Let your system constrain vendors, by design How do we buy software? A problem appears often, a category forms around it, and vendors emerge. A vendor is selected, and a contract is signed. In Your SaaS Vendor’s Margin Is Your Opportunity, we named a quiet truth: Software vendors earn by generalizing away your edge cases.  Vendors optimize for feature velocity. But organization systems evolve to ensure that the organization is not fragile. The greater the exactnes

Jan 11, 2026

Ten thousand dollar productivity > Million dollar transformation

Taste is the limiting factor, not tools or people "AI is changing everything" is a tiring trope, if we are not able to show concrete examples of how it changes daily work. Companies that want to open their purse strings, want to know how AI can make a difference in days.  Consulting firms see AI as a "transformation" opportunity. Analytics firms see it as a "data unlock" opportunity. Data tool vendors see it as an "orchestrate for efficiency" problem. None of these are intuitive to the buyer –

Jan 9, 2026

Billie - the billing and outage chatbot for utilities

Jan 8, 2026

Vina - AI that hires like your best hiring manager

Hiring should be better