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How-to, comparisons, Q&A, pillar essays, and case studies. The longer reads on what's actually working in AI for CEOs.
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The CEO's case for making AI argue with itself before it answers you
A single AI answer is one unchecked opinion. A dynamic workflow in Claude Code runs many AI workers that draft from different angles and review each other, so the answer reaching a CEO already survived an argument. You describe the job in plain English; Claude writes and runs the script. No coding required.
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Treat AI like your sharpest new hire, not a search engine
A CEO I know has had a paid Claude account for eight months. He uses it almost daily. His most common prompt is some version of "what do I need to know about X?" He gets back something decent, skims…
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Will this replace my team? How to think and talk about it
There is a version of this question that I asked publicly and a version I asked in the dark at 11pm, sitting with my laptop, while the office was empty and no one could hear me work through it…
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The things non-technical CEOs get wrong about AI
Every CEO I talk to says roughly the same thing: "We're thinking seriously about AI." Most of them have been thinking seriously about it for a year and a half. In that same period, a smaller group…
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10 ways a CEO can put AI to work this week
Most "AI for CEOs" advice tells you to write a strategy. This is the opposite. No committee, no roadmap, no platform. Just a menu of ten high-leverage uses, ordered from the ones that cost you…
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From chat tabs to a real system: the CEO's 90-day AI roadmap
Most CEOs are stuck at the same place with AI: a dozen chat tabs, a vague sense it should be doing more, and no plan to get there. The instinct is to either do nothing or to over-reach (an AI…
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The five AI workflows every CEO should install first
Here is the gap between a CEO who uses AI and one who gets leverage from it. The first opens a chat tab, asks a question, gets an answer, closes the tab. The second has installed a set of workflows…
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How to get your team to actually use AI
You did the hard part already. You ran the all-hands, you named the layoff fear out loud, you signed the order for the licenses. If you haven't had that conversation yet, go run it first: [how to…
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Forget who's winning the harness wars. Pick one and start.
This week my X feed filled up with two words: ["HERMES WON."](https://x.com/ns123abc/status/2061336544183521729) Nous Research had been [building out a stronger memory…
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Hand your agent a half-day of work and walk away
Peter Steinberger, who built the [OpenCLAW](/articles/what-is-openclaw) harness, said something [on X](https://x.com/steipete/status/2060678430031597696) that stuck with me: "Yielding agents is a…
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How I replaced a $10K/month agency with an AI stack
A full-service content agency at the $5K to $15K-a-month tier delivers a recognizable package. Call it four to eight long-form articles, a dozen or two social posts, a few emails, a landing page,…
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Build the second brain before you build the agent
Andrej Karpathy posted something [on X](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595) that named a shift I've been feeling. A growing share of his time with AI is no longer spent writing code.…
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As a CEO, where should we start with AI, and what are the highest-value use cases?
You already pay for ChatGPT or Claude. You have used it a handful of times, it was fine, and some quiet part of you suspects you are missing something the people who keep talking about this are not.…
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Which AI releases actually matter, and which can I ignore?
Most of what crosses your feed is safe to skip. Point-version bumps, a benchmark someone leapfrogged on launch day, the breathless thread about the next model being the smartest yet: none of it…
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Why most AI agents fall apart in real work (and how to fix it)
You watched it in the demo. The [AI agent](/articles/what-is-an-ai-agent) read the file, ran the task, came back with something sharp. You handed it a real multi-day job and it lost the plot…
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Why AI sounds confident when it's wrong (and how to catch it)
You asked the model a question and it gave you a clean answer. Names, a date, a citation, no hedging. It read like it knew. Half the time it does. The other half it's guessing, and it sounds exactly…
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The autonomous, self-improving company
The voice profile that DeskTheory's AI drafts against got sharper this week, and I didn't write the thing that sharpened it.
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How to talk to your team about AI
There is a meeting every CEO rolling AI into their company eventually has to run, and it's the one most of them run badly.
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Why CEOs should use Claude Code in the terminal
A year ago, most CEOs had never heard of Anthropic or Claude. Today, pretty much all CEOs have a paid Claude account and open it every day.
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Granola for CEOs: the highest-ROI AI install of 2026
It's 6:14am on a Tuesday in May. I'm at my desk with some delicious coffee. I open Claude in the terminal and ask: what came up in yesterday's board call I should sleep on before responding?
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