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Oct 2026
What we ask in the first half hour
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Oct 2026
Don't automate a mess
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Oct 2026
A demo is not a Monday
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Oct 2026
Design the wrong answer
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Oct 2026
The blank prompt is a closed door
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Oct 2026
Put it where the work already is
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Oct 2026
Give the agent a job
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Oct 2026
The model can draft. You still own the voice.
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Oct 2026
Closing it is not finishing it
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Oct 2026
Someone still owns the off-hours
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Oct 2026
Faster is not the same as decided
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Oct 2026
They came for an outcome, not your org chart
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Oct 2026
A license is not a rollout
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Oct 2026
The person who changes the setting still owns it
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Oct 2026
Design the work the model leaves behind
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Sep 2026
A thousand engineers is not a product
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Sep 2026
The score is not the hire
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Sep 2026
Last quarter's exception is not policy
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Sep 2026
The customer already told you
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Sep 2026
A summary is not a decision
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Sep 2026
The exception queue is the product
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Sep 2026
An output is not a handoff
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Sep 2026
Licenses are not a result
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Sep 2026
If you can't stop the agent, you didn't ship
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Sep 2026
Don't grow an AI elite. Design a way in.
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Aug 2026
Agent sprawl is a UX problem
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Aug 2026
AI made research synthesis cheap. The decision is still expensive.
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Aug 2026
The process engineer your AI rollout is missing
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May 2026
Why most AI implementations fail at the UX layer
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Apr 2026
The case for slower AI adoption
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Mar 2026
What Swiss design still has to say about AI interfaces
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Feb 2026
Running an AI assessment: what we actually look for
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