#strategy

A description of what good AI work actually feels like, why it's held up across model eras and platforms, and why it's also the shape of knowledge work going forward.

Brandon Gadoci

May 14, 2026

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

Anthropic and OpenAI both announced today that they're standing up implementation arms backed by billions in capital. Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. OpenAI finalized a $10 billion vehicle anchored by TPG. That confirms what operators in this space have been quietly investing in for a year: the translation layer between AI capability and business outcomes is real, it's a category, and it's not going away.

Brandon Gadoci

May 5, 2026

I caught myself, three hours into building a financial-modeling app, reaching for the old reflex of turning it into a public product. For the first time in twenty years I dismissed the thought on the spot. The reasoning that came up was new, and the rest of the market is arriving at the same conclusion at the same time.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 30, 2026

Anthony Pompliano reversed his position on AI and jobs this week, and Marc Andreessen amplified it. The data Pompliano cites is real. The data on the other side, showing entry-level hiring collapse and recent-grad unemployment near a fifteen-year high, is also real. Both can be true at once because they are describing two different kinds of companies.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 25, 2026

OpenAI launched workspace agents this week. Claude has had cloud-hosted scheduled automations for weeks. Here's what's actually different between the two, and what it means for your organization.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 23, 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

A small Siri failure and what it reveals about a much larger problem Apple hasn't solved yet.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 19, 2026

Zapier's V2 AI Fluency Rubric maps closely to the L1/L2/L3 framework and AI Operator model Gadoci Consulting has been delivering for over a year. The convergence signals the market is coalescing around a shared understanding of what AI maturity actually looks like.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 15, 2026

Across multiple clients, the same question keeps surfacing: should we go all-in on one AI platform or maintain several? After working through it enough times, we've formed an opinion. Most enterprises need three tools, and they already have one.

Brandon Gadoci

Apr 15, 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