Technology advisory for leaders who need straight answers
After two decades building technology teams and leading a global technology practice, I help organizations figure out what AI actually means for their business. Not the hype, not the vendor promises — the practical reality of getting from proof-of-concept to something that works.
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AI Strategy
Most organizations don't need another AI strategy deck. They need strategy informed by the realities of execution: what it actually takes to build, ship and govern reliable, AI-infused software. I help you figure out where AI creates real value and build strategies that survive first contact with reality.
Digital Transformation
Transformation fails when organizations treat it as a technology project. The hard part isn't picking the right tools, it's creating the organizational muscle to actually use them. I work with leadership teams on both the technology choices and the cultural and organizational changes that make them stick.
One-on-One Mentoring
You're deep in your organization's context; I bring pattern recognition from working across industry. I work directly with technology executives who need an outside perspective on strategic decisions and implementation realities, as a thought partner who's seen these problems before and can help you think through what actually works.
Recent
Smart Enough
October 2026What Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and my own small agent taught me about the AI race: how smart does the model have to be before something else becomes the bottleneck?
What Is Intelligence Worth?
June 2026Ed Zitron argues demand for AI tools would collapse if users paid the real cost. But for knowledge workers whose output is scalable, the math suggests otherwise, even after accounting for subsidies, competition, and the possibility that AI is becoming less of an edge and more of an expectation.