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Notes, numbers, and hard-won lessons from helping small and medium-sized businesses actually put AI to work. No think-pieces, no vendor takes — just what the math said after we ran it.
The most advanced AI operation in Richmond makes ice cream
The Richmond Times-Dispatch published a survey of Richmond-area businesses and AI on Sunday (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Aug. 30, 2026). Sixteen percent of the businesses surveyed are actively using AI. Another 44%...
Don’t Let AI Become Your New Tupperware
You know this kitchen. The oatmeal you eat every morning lives behind a bottle of white wine vinegar that expired in April. There’s a moldy heel of bread under a...
Bolt a motor to a line shaft and you’ve still got a line shaft
Paul David's 1990 paper explains why electricity took 40 years to show up in productivity statistics: factories bolted motors onto steam-era line shafts. AI seats on unchanged workflows repeat the mistake.
Cuban’s right. The AI bill is for the workflow you never rebuilt.
Mark Cuban on Big Technology Podcast: F500s waste money on AI because they're running the business the way they always have. ROI comes from rebuilding the workflow on AI — not bolting AI on the old one. SMBs have the asymmetric advantage.
Ken Griffin Went Home Fairly Depressed
Ken Griffin called AI "garbage" at Davos in January 2026. Four months later at Stanford GSB, the $50B Citadel founder came home "fairly depressed" because AI agents now do in hours what his PhD finance team does in months. The reversal is the story.
You can just install Claude Code tonight
You don't need a steering committee to use AI. Twenty dollars, one evening, and one workflow gets you further than a 90-day evaluation.