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Maps, theses and frameworks on how AI is rebuilding companies, industries and capital flows: from the chip layer to the enterprise, by Gennaro Cuofano and The Business Engineer.
Start with the Map of AICommission researchFlagship: The Map of AI
The reference view of the AI economy, rebuilt as the industry moves.
The Map of AI · Q2 2026
The quarterly map of the AI economy: 200+ companies placed across the 9 layers of the AI stack. It is the starting point for every other piece on this page.
- Q2 2026 video workshop
- The Map of AI Redrawn: why the map had to be redrawn, and what moved between layers.
- The Updated Map of AI: the March 2026 edition of the map.
Research coverage
Five desks, one lens: how the structure of a business or an industry decides who captures the value.
Macro and the AI Supercycle
Capital flows, cycles and the constraints that set the pace.
The thesis: why this AI cycle behaves unlike a normal technology cycle.
The capex map of the hyperscalers: who is spending, on what, and why (May 2026 edition).
Where value is pooling across the AI economy, week by week.
The bubble question, answered with the structure underneath the market moves.
The constraints that set the pace of AI, and the newest one.
Compute and infrastructure
Chips, clouds and the economics of the stack.
Enterprise AI
How the enterprise adopts, buys and builds.
A coordinate system for placing any enterprise AI move.
What the next twelve months of enterprise AI adoption look like.
The coalitions forming in enterprise AI, and who sits in which camp.
The foundation harness: how an enterprise wires AI into real work.
Company theses
Single-company calls on the AI economy's key players.
Business models of the AI era
What replaces SaaS, consulting and the app.
The discipline: Business Engineer books
The frameworks behind the research, written up as books for the roles the AI era creates.
The Business Engineerโs BookThe discipline for reading the AI era.
The Business Architectโs Book The AI organizational designer.
The Business Orchestratorโs Book Running the firm when agents do the work.
The Forward-Deployed EngineerThe role at the centre of enterprise AI deployment.
The AI Deployment ArchitectDesigning how AI reaches the enterprise.
AI Product Engineering Building AI products customers adopt.
The AI Growth Engineer Growth when AI does the distribution work.
Context & Graph Engineering Context and knowledge graphs as the new engineering layer.
The Business Engineer's HarnessHow serious operators set up AI to work for them.
AI & The Harness TheoryThe next professional jump is a harness, not a better prompt.Frameworks in practice
Interactive framework tools
Classic strategy frameworks rebuilt with a Business Engineer diagram and a tool you can use on your own case.
Company deep dives
56 companies read from their own filings: the income statement as a money flow, revenue by line, the trend and the key figures, each with its source.
All 56 companies
How we work
We read a company or an industry by its structure: where the value is created, where it is captured, and what constrains it.
Figures come from filings, earnings calls and the companies’ own statements, with the period and the document named. Where a figure is not reported, we say so.
Maps and theses are revised when the industry moves, and each edition is dated.
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