What’s The
Next-Next
AI Revolution?

What happens when we don’t build products, our products build themselves?

I believe we are near the intersection of several major trends that will completely upend the direction of AI, the products founders build, the way they build them, the investment theses driving capital flows, and the corporate landscape.

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Who’s this guy?

I’m Sean (יוֹנָתָן/山/يوناثان). For 30+ years, I have worked across finance, technical program management, and product leadership. I’ve created go-to-market strategies for global brands, built strategy teams, and built a public school from scratch in Pasadena. 

My passion is building & leading human-machine intelligent systems.  

I study how complex systems, from a startup in a new category or students graduating into an AI-First world, evolve to solve problems in real-world contexts. 

I use that understanding to build increasingly accurate, adaptive "world simulators" designed to make better decisions today than they did yesterday. 

A simulator might integrate economic, social, and tech trends to inform how I lead a product team to build better products.  Or be integrated into a product as a digital twin that automatically crafts deeply loyal customer relationships at scale.

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Welcome to my site

I use this site to provide research-based insights, tools, and event alerts that I believe will help founders, investors, researchers, engineers, and marketers (the FIRE Audience) innovate faster and more effectively.

Insights

How to Build Products that Build Themselves
The AI-First Manifesto

We are all familiar with the power of AI.  In this article, I explore the existential threat and generational opportunity of connected AI-agency. I map the convergence of trends making this almost inevitable, the 11 principles of future products, and the organizational overhaul that founders, business leaders, marketers, and investors will need to make to survive & thrive.

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How to Build Individual Relationships with Each of Your Customers
AI Hyperpersonalization

Open-loop AI systems (like chatbots) increase productivity. This article investigates a less explored topic: how close-looped systems have the potential to increase returns by at least an order of magnitude. 

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I publish new research & thought pieces on the intersection of trends, business, systems, and AI regularly.
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Events

AI FIRE Summit

I founded the AI FIRE Summit because I believe the people innovating at the frontier, Founders, Investors, Researchers, Engineers, and Marketers, need a simpler, more direct way to get the raw materials they need to succeed: intentional connections, customized insights, vetted tools, and smart money.

I’m fortunate to have the support of amazing organizations dedicated to pushing innovation: ANA NorCal, ThinkLA, and AILA.  We are targeting our first in-person, cross-California summit for Jan 2026.  

I want the FIRE Summit to be more than a single event. I’d like it to be an ongoing opportunity:

  • For Founders: We will match you with the capital and tools you need to survive.

  • For Business Leaders: We will connect you with high-level talent and success-accelerating MarTech.

  • For Investors: We will provide the thesis-level research to de-risk your next bet.

  • For Researchers: We will connect your breakthroughs to the market.


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Tools

Individualized Relationships at Scale - Currently Building

Using my research in AI Hyperpersonalization, I am currently developing what I believe will be the next generation of relationship management.

The Concept: You insert a customer’s email, and the system autonomously learns to build an individualized relationship narrative with them—dramatically increasing loyalty and virality without increasing headcount.

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Connecting with me

I reserve a portion of my schedule to partner with leadership teams tackling high-complexity problems. I typically work with:

  • Founders looking for a strategic partner to validate their GTM or Product Thesis.

  • Investors seeking due diligence on AI trends and 'Relationship Moats.'

  • Researchers looking to promote their insights or commercialize their research.

  • Organizations needing a fractional leader to accelerate ROI.

If you’re working on a hard problem and think my perspective might be useful, let’s discuss how we might work together you can reach me via my

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Looking forward to connecting, Sean.