INSIGHTS
What leaders are reading.
Essays on AI strategy, agents and the future of work — written by the same people who do the engagements.
FUTURE OF WORK
Apr 28, 2026
What your AI strategy cannot see from the inside
You can't judge your AI priorities from the inside — the view is too narrow. An AI Signal Brief gives you an outside-in snapshot of your company's AI landscape, grounded in your market.
Miikka Leinonen
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FUTURE OF WORK
Apr 1, 2026
Can AI replace consultants, designers, and strategists?
The answer is not what you think. AI is better at some things, worse at others, and unexpectedly fragile in the areas we thought it would dominate.
Miikka Leinonen
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VISION
Feb 27, 2026
The End of the Serendipity Era
For years we were told innovation comes from serendipity. But when intelligence is abundant, discovery is cheap — and intentional construction, not luck, becomes the real bottleneck.
Anupam Kundu
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AGENTS
Feb 24, 2026
OpenClaw: How it fits (or not) in the business world and in the AI-Pathway framework
OpenClaw is one of the most powerful autonomous AI agents yet — but is it business-ready? We try it and map what fully autonomous agents mean for AI vision, strategy, and enablers.
Arthur Prévot
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FUTURE OF WORK
Feb 16, 2026
You were hired to do a job. Now you need to become an experimenter
You were hired to deliver and execute — no one told you you'd also have to explore the unknown. In a world shaped by AI, experimentation is no longer optional; it's how you keep agency over your own career.
Miikka Leinonen
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FUTURE OF WORK · PRODUCTIVITY
Feb 9, 2026
How vibe coding will change white-collar work
Coding is about to stop being the bottleneck that shapes how organizations work. As vibe coding and agentic AI make software creation radically faster, a deeper issue comes into focus: when building becomes easy, endless internal loops become impossible to justify.
Miikka Leinonen
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PRODUCTIVITY
Jan 19, 2026
Decision velocity: How AI helps teams decide faster
Your team doesn't decide slowly because it lacks intelligence — it's structural drag. Decision velocity is the ability to move from question to conclusion without losing clarity, and AI removes the friction around it.
Anupam Kundu
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ADOPTION
Jan 10, 2026
Do you find it hard to keep up with new AI solutions for your business?
Drowning in 'must-try' AI tools? What helps isn't a better tool — it's a better filter. Split everything into entertaining and serious, and let a clear AI vision decide what's worth your attention.
Miikka Leinonen
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AGENTS
Dec 19, 2025
The AI vending machine that believed it was 1962 in Russia
A quiet warning about AI systems that can be persuaded into false realities when they are treated like participants, not tools.
Anupam Kundu
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ADOPTION
Dec 12, 2025
Navigating AI adaptation: how fear is holding companies back
Most companies are not moving slowly on AI because they're being careful. They're moving slowly because they're scared.
Anupam Kundu
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AGENTS · GOVERNANCE
Nov 21, 2025
The Automation Illusion — When Low-Code Breeds High-Risk
Every few years technology rediscovers its illusion of speed. Today it's AI-enabled automations — and the no-code gold rush is quietly building a fragile shadow infrastructure that nobody owns.
Arthur Prévot & Anupam Kundu
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VISION
Nov 18, 2025
Every company needs three different AI visions
AI-first companies move like speedboats; large organizations move like container ships. The answer isn't one AI vision — it's three: Save, Create, and Break, run at the same time.
Miikka Leinonen
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AI REALITY CHECK
Oct 27, 2025
AI in Healthcare: Between Hype and Healing
Some AI in healthcare truly works right now — in imaging, risk prediction, and operations. Much of it doesn't. A grounded look at where AI heals, where it deludes, and how to tell the difference.
Anupam Kundu
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AI REALITY CHECK
Oct 14, 2025
AI in Legal: Between Hallucinations and Hard Reality
In early 2025, Deloitte's AI-generated report cited cases that didn't exist. If one of the world's largest consulting firms can be blindsided by hallucinations, what does that mean for everyone rushing AI into legal work?
Anupam Kundu
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FUTURE OF WORK
Jan 2, 2025
Is your work safe from AI?
Rather than listing which jobs might disappear, let's explore why and how AI impacts certain roles — and how you can adapt and stay relevant.
Miikka Leinonen
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FUTURE OF WORK
Nov 15, 2024
AI is not going to steal your job, but it can make it obsolete
AI probably won't do all of your job — but it will reshape the roles, workflows, and systems around it. A surgeon won't be replaced, but the demand for surgeons may shrink.
Miikka Leinonen
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CREATIVITY · FUTURE OF WORK
Oct 30, 2024
Is generative AI ending the era of unique work?
Most of what we produce isn't unique — and that's exactly why generative AI works so well. As 'expert' work gets democratized, we face three paths: do less, do more, or venture into the genuinely unknown.
Miikka Leinonen
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PROMPTING · PRODUCTIVITY
Oct 10, 2024
Chain of thought prompting: unlocking Gen AI's full potential
Prompting well is an art — a balance of direction and space for the AI to reason. Chain of Thought Prompting walks the model through its reasoning step by step, with real good-vs-bad prompt examples.
Anupam Kundu
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