AI Strategy / Duncan Grazier

Sep 22

The Atoms Are Already Deployed

Cloud AI sells itself as a software business. Underneath the API sits the largest industrial buildout in the history of computing, and…

Sep 09

Whelk is out. One server on hardware you own, a native client on every device you carry, and a room full of…

Jul 29

Most AI products invest in the part of the stack that loses value fastest. The model is the wasting asset. The interface,…

Jul 21

My agents forgot everything when a session ended. So I built commonplace, an open source memory with two tiers: a hosted model…

Jul 07

For most of my career I thought I was building products. Looking back, I was mostly building org charts. The customer gets…

Jun 15

Most advice about building a company is the answer to a puzzle. The hardest parts were never puzzles. They are mysteries, and…

May 11

People ask how I plan to build more than one company at once. The question assumes intelligence is still scarce. It is…

May 05

I’ve spent 15+ years building things inside other people’s companies. This week I started building one of my own. It’s called Aqen.ai.…

Apr 24

A city council packet runs 400 pages, and the people it affects most read it least. I spent a few Friday nights…

Apr 06

One company put AI usage into performance reviews. Another cut about 30,000 people to fund data centers. Both point at the same…