Insights

To help corporate leaders accelerate their performance with AI, we translate complex AI research into practical business insights, dissect trends from our perspective, and interview people at the forefront to help leaders identify new opportunities and avoid risks.

The AI-First Manifesto
Sean Markin Sean Markin

The AI-First Manifesto

The Story of How You Own the Future

The AI-First Manifesto - A World Where Products Build Themselves

In this article, I explore the existential threat and generational opportunity of connected AI with independent-agency - i.e. what “AI-First” could really mean beyond the chatbot.

  • the convergence of trends making this almost inevitable

  • the 11 principles of future products

  • the organizational overhaul that founders, business leaders, marketers, and investors will need to make to survive & thrive

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A Model to Predict AI’s Impact
Sean Markin Sean Markin

A Model to Predict AI’s Impact

How might you predict AI’s impact on edtech or construction?  Could a model be developed that might predict AI’s impact on any industry?

If so, it could help guide product or service development, institutional asset allocation, positioning strategy, etc. 

To attempt to predict how AI will impact an industry or submarket, I’ve developed what I call “the Density Model of Artificial Intelligence.” 

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