Long-form arguments.
Deeper pieces on where AI is going in B2B finance, how it's actually architected, and what that means for finance leaders making decisions today.
- August 4, 2026
Your Agent Needs Two Memories
Pull what has a system of record. Persist what does not. A folder is not a memory, and most of the knowledge that matters has no system of record at all.
agents · architecture · memory - August 1, 2026
Facts Flow, Meaning Accumulates
MCP answers how an agent reaches data. The brain answers what the organization knows. Pull facts of record. Persist judgment that has no system of record.
agents · architecture · memory · mcp - April 13, 2026
The Context Layer Is Eating SaaS
The software meltdown isn't AI killing SaaS. It's Christensen's Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits playing out in real time. Value is migrating from the interface layer to the context layer.
context-layer · saas · christensen · market-analysis - April 7, 2026
The Shared Brain
Karpathy described a personal LLM wiki. We have been running the multiplayer version since the start of the year.
agents · architecture · shared-brain - March 4, 2026
The Anatomy of a Document Agent
What does it actually mean for a document to 'decide' something? The four components that give an invoice or contract genuine agency.
architecture · specialization · agents - February 17, 2026
Why Your AI Agents Are Failing: The Control Trap
Finance leaders are deploying AI agents like they're adopting teenagers. Curfews, check-ins, no real decisions. Then they wonder why the agents don't deliver.
autonomy · deployment · strategy - February 15, 2026
The Execution Layer: Why AI Predictions Are Just Entertainment
Everyone agrees on where AI agents are going. The destination is not the differentiator. The route is. Constraint profiles, a task vocabulary, and democratized creation.
agents · strategy · architecture - February 3, 2026
The 75% of AI Value You're Leaving on the Table
Most finance teams deployed AI and got incremental results. The problem isn't adoption. It's that no one specified which kind of AI to adopt. There are four, not one.
frameworks · strategy · agents - January 22, 2026
The Invoice as Agent: Why Every Document Will Have Its Own AI
We've been thinking about AI in finance backwards. The end state isn't smarter agents processing dumb documents. It's documents that process themselves.
architecture · specialization · invoicing - January 15, 2026
Human-in-the-Loop Is a Temporary Placebo
Sixty percent of enterprises require human oversight before AI agents access sensitive data. It feels responsible. It's a placebo with a 24-month shelf life.
autonomy · governance · agents