Daniel Hawke Roberts
Founder · CEO · Speaker
I run a software company where the entire engineering department is me and a fleet of AI agents. I write down what that means for people who run things.
The technologists speak in tokens and agents. You speak in P&L and headcount. Almost nobody speaks both. That gap is where I live.
Most enterprise AI initiatives fail because they're owned by IT instead of the business. Most AI writing is by technologists, for technologists. The work here is simpler: help leaders understand and act on AI without becoming technologists themselves. No condescension in either direction.
Essays and frameworks for people who run things.
The model is not your moat
Foundation models are commodities that leapfrog each other every quarter. The real advantage is the orchestration you build around them.
Read →The new math of capability
Headcount used to prove a function was serious. Now the real tell is output per person, and the gap between systems and slides is widening.
Read →Your AI strategy died in the org chart
Route AI to IT and you get theater. Pilots, committees, a chatbot. The leverage was never in the stack. It is in who owns the redesign of the work.
Read →
Not an AI expert. Not a business guru. The translator.
A decade operating at the executive level, then a year and a half living inside agentic AI as the sole engineer of a twenty-person operation. This site is the journal from that bridge.
The bridge,
in your inbox.
Long-form essays and operator notes on what AI actually means for the people running things. Occasional, considered, no recycled hot takes.
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