Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
June 28, 2026
AI agents save real hours, yet only 41% of rollouts hit positive ROI within a year and 19% never pay back. The 2026 data on why most agent deployments stall — and the four moves that separate the winners. The dividing line isn't the model; it's measurement.
June 27, 2026
How Google turned itself from a search company into an agentic-AI company across two keynotes — I/O 2025 and I/O 2026 — and what its agents, open protocols, and quadrillion-token scale mean for business decision-makers planning their own AI bets.
June 20, 2026
Vercel deleted roughly 80% of its internal AI agent's tools and it got faster, cheaper, and more accurate. The counterintuitive result explains why most business AI fails — and hands small and medium businesses a concrete playbook for landing in the 5% that actually works.
June 19, 2026
Small businesses now adopt AI faster than big firms — yet roughly 95% of AI projects move no profit at all. Here's what the AI-native small business actually looks like by 2030, and the six-step roadmap that turns cheap intelligence into software-grade margins.
June 2, 2026
Forget the autonomous "digital employee." The small businesses actually winning with AI in 2026 each did one humbler thing — handed a single tedious chore to a machine, kept a human watching it, and got their afternoons back. Ten real cases, and the wall at the end of the runway.
May 29, 2026
AI agents pay off when you point them at a narrow back-office chore — inbox triage, scheduling, invoicing, lead follow-up — and fail when you ask them to autonomously run your business. A practical, skeptic-friendly guide for SMB operators.