Artificial Intelligence: when speed outpaces understanding of opportunity

Why most organisations can no longer tell whether their AI is working In the first half of 2025, a research group called METR ran an experiment that ought to have changed a great many board conversations, and mostly did not. Sixteen highly experienced open-source developers were given 246 real tasks in codebases they had worked […]

Motor Swap or Factory Rebuild? The Question Every Leader Should Be Asking About AI

There is a group of workers inside your organisation that almost no one is measuring. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index calls them “blocked agency”: people who have become genuinely skilled with AI, who understand what it can and cannot do, and who work in a company with no capacity to absorb any of it. They […]

Knowledge work just acquired a unit cost. Most organisations aren’t ready.

Why AI bills are rising as token prices collapse, and what leaders should measure instead of usage For about two years, the fastest way to look forward-thinking inside a large organisation was to use a lot of AI. That is not a figure of speech. Meta made AI-driven impact a formal expectation in every employee’s […]