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AI in practice

Ideas, guides and behind-the-scenes on how companies are using artificial intelligence across sales, marketing, support and management — without the hype.

AI Agents

The Agent Handled It. Now You're Blind.

When an AI agent replaces human interaction in sales or support, efficiency goes up. But something disappears quietly: the unstructured information that only existed in that conversation.

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June 2026 8
AI Agents

The Agent Learned. The Salespeople Forgot.

When a company captures its top performers' patterns to train a sales AI agent, it creates a quiet problem: the knowledge freezes, and no one notices until something needs to be fixed and no one knows how anymore.

Strategy for AI-First Companies

You Picked the Vendor for Price. Now They Set the Limits.

Most companies choose their LLM provider based on cost per token. The problem shows up 18 months later, when switching models costs more than staying locked in.

AI Agents

The exception the agent ignored was your best customer

AI agents follow patterns with precision. The problem is that your most valuable cases rarely fit any pattern — and the agent can't tell the difference.

Strategy for AI-First Companies

The Agent Answered Right. The Question Was Wrong.

Most AI audits measure whether the agent delivered what was asked. Nobody audits whether what was asked still makes sense.

AI Leadership

The Report Was Right. The Decision Was Wrong.

The AI delivered an accurate analysis and the company still made the wrong call. Understanding why that happens — and how to separate tool failure from judgment failure — is what sets learning organizations apart from those stuck in circles.

AI in Marketing and Sales

You Automated the Output. The Input Is Still a Guess.

Most companies apply AI at the bottom of the funnel while ICP definition and value hypotheses remain untested assumptions. When the premise is wrong, automation just accelerates the mistake.

Strategy for AI-First Companies

Who shuts down the agent when things go wrong?

Most companies define who turns an automation on. Almost none define who has the authority to turn it off. That gap is expensive.

Strategy for AI-First Companies

Dependency is the product, not the risk

Your AI vendor's business model wasn't designed to solve your dependency. It was designed to deepen it.

May 2026 4
Marketing, Sales, and Growth with AI

GEO Crystallizes Who You Used to Be

ChatGPT is recommending your company to your next client. The problem is it's recommending the version from two years ago.

AI Applied to Business

The Invisible Side Effect of AI

1,200 customers at risk. 200 prioritized by the system. Eighteen months later, the team could no longer read the other 1,000 - and those were precisely the ones keeping the critical cases from surfacing.

Process Automation

The line between autonomy and escalation

Your agent made a decision it wasn't supposed to make, and you never found out.

Process Automation

Sunset Date: The Deliverable Nobody Schedules

The plan was two weeks of parallel operation. It's been six months.

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