Field Notes · Observations

Insights from the frontier.

Perspectives on Human+AI collaboration, the future of consulting, and building enterprises that see what others cannot.

FIG. 01September 9, 2026

Your AI Power Users Are Getting Faster. Is Your Organization?

The most encouraging sign in many AI rollouts is also one of the most misleading. Individuals are moving faster — but individual speed that doesn't transfer becomes collective drag.

FIG. 02September 1, 2026

The Compound Human

Almost the entire AI conversation is about tools — which model won this quarter, which agent absorbed which task. We're missing the more important exchange: how the human role and the whole system of work is evolving.

FIG. 03April 28, 2026

The 52-Week Proof Point: What Running an AI-Native Organization for a Full Year Teaches You

The two-week sprint is dead. For 52 weeks we ran a real engagement on a strict one-week cadence — not a pilot, not a framework exercise. Here is what a full year actually teaches you.

FIG. 04February 24, 2026

Faster Dinosaurs: Avoiding the AI Ambition Trap

Smart leaders. Real budgets. Real urgency. Genuine AI ambition. And a strategy that amounts to doing what we've always done, but with AI bolted on. That's a faster dinosaur.

FIG. 05January 20, 2026

2025: The Year Context Engineering Found Its Name

While everyone was chasing AI agents, we were building something different. The contrarian bet of 2025: engines, not agents — and why context isn't retrieval, it's architecture.

FIG. 06January 7, 2026

An AI-Native Reflection on 2025

Honest reflections from building an AI-native company from scratch in 2025 — including an unfair advantage we didn't even know we had, and why most companies are still thinking about this incorrectly heading into 2026.

FIG. 07August 2025

See What Others Cannot — The Future of Human-AI Collaboration

The organizations winning with AI aren’t using better tools. They’re working with better context. And they see opportunities others simply cannot perceive.

FIG. 08July 28, 2025

The Heartbeat of Innovation

After a year of building AI-integrated workflows, we’ve discovered something counterintuitive: true innovation doesn’t happen at machine speed—it happens at human speed.

FIG. 09July 22, 2025

Beyond the Prompt — Introducing Jumpscript

Most AI interaction treats it as a simple, one-way street: the human gives a command, the AI gives a response. This model overlooks a significant source of "hidden lag." The Jumpscript changes everything.

FIG. 10July 15, 2025

Unveiling Hidden Lag

AI is everywhere; lift is not. We call the drag on expert teams "Hidden Lag." It’s the invisible friction that slows decisions, lowers quality, and quietly taxes the people you depend on most.