#Best Practices

A working through-line for what changed in how we use ChatGPT, why the term "context engineering" is doing real work, and the practical moves that separate people who get good output from people who don't. Includes a 30-minute coached exercise you can run on yourself.

Brandon Gadoci

May 13, 2026

Solutioner.ai now has Plans, Tasks, and Milestones, built in the UI and as an MCP at the same time. Here's why we made the decisions we did and what it changes about how AI consultancies manage client work.

Brandon Gadoci

May 13, 2026

Anthropic's Amanda Askell says Claude slips into "criticism spirals" when users get sharp, hostile, or unpredictable. The finding is really about prompt tone as a workforce skill, and what it means for AI training programs that skip right past it.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 21, 2026

Alex Lieberman posted about the "Brain" someone will build for enterprises and make a stupid amount of money on. The work that actually matters starts before that product arrives, and it looks a lot less glamorous than the pitch.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 21, 2026

The conversation around Claude skills is valid, but it misses the bigger picture. The real unlock in Cowork is building modular context as you work, something no web-based AI chat can do.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 13, 2026

McKinsey published their AI Transformation Manifesto on April 7th, outlining twelve themes that separate companies truly transforming with AI from those still experimenting. The themes map closely to how Gadoci Consulting has been building from day one.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 13, 2026

The clearest signal that an AI champions program is working isn't an adoption metric. It's what happens during show and tell.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 11, 2026

We built a curated catalog of 49 AI tools with expert opinions inside Solutioner.ai, maintained with a custom Claude skill that lets us research, assess, and publish new tools in minutes. Here's how it works and why our clients find it valuable.

Brandon Gadoci

Mar 25, 2026

Gadoci Consulting is adding a new way to engage: AI Embed. We send one of our people to sit with your team for 1-3 days, learn how they work, and build AI workflows into their actual day-to-day. Not a workshop. An immersion.

Brandon Gadoci

Mar 22, 2026

We took the persona frameworks scattered across our docs, decks, and heads and encoded them into a Claude skill that shows up automatically when our team needs it. Here's why that pattern matters for any organization building with AI.

Brandon Gadoci

Mar 20, 2026

AI skills, context, and workflows are becoming managed infrastructure. The companies that recognize this and build an AI Ops function will scale AI effectively. The ones that don't will keep wondering why their AI investments feel stuck in pilot mode.

Brandon Gadoci

Mar 20, 2026

We've been asking AI to generate slides and PDFs. But the most useful output I've gotten from an AI workflow lately was a single HTML file — no server, no framework, no dependencies. Just one file that does more than a 20-slide deck ever could.