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The AI Supercycle
A thirty-to-fifty-year transformation: three nested clocks, a bubble and a revolution at once, and a nine-layer industrial stack.
Read it →May 2026The Map of AI, redrawn
Seven parallel competitive layers, each with its own clock, and what changes when companies start binding them together.
Read it →Jul 2025The Agentic AI Stack
Layer selection is a strategy: the winners of the agentic era choose the right layers and build moats that compound.
Read it →Mar 2025The AI Value Chain
Hardware, cloud, software, models, and vertical and consumer applications: the ecosystem the whole industry runs on.
Read it →Jun 2025The Strategic Map of AI
Eight major players, eight fundamentally different strategic bets, one chess game.
Read it →Feb 2025Competitive Moating in AI
Technology becomes a moat only when it turns into brand, distribution and operational advantage.
Read it →Aug 2025The AI Leverage Playbook
A framework for founders and executives to apply 100+ AI tools across the whole company.
Read it →Jan 2025The Web²
Market expansion theory: the difference between a gradual technology and a paradigm shift.
Read it →May 2024Business Engineering: Book, Workshop and CustomGPT
Looking at the business world as an investor, an entrepreneur and an operator at once.
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