AI can’t scale an adviser’s attention
Faster processing can expand a service business, but growth still runs through the scarce human capacity to pay attention and make sound judgments.
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Business & Markets
Competition, positioning, adoption, economics and the formation of technology markets.
Ideas in Business & Markets
AI gives financial advisers more client time
Regional Prosperity uses AI to increase back-office throughput so its people can devote more attention to the relationships that make its financial advice valuable.
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AI is a capital good
The value of widely available intelligence emerges when people apply it to a real business, idea or point of pain.
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AI must solve immediate SME bottlenecks
For a small business under delivery pressure, AI becomes useful when it clears a bottleneck quickly enough to create value today.
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How agents create information markets
Machine customers can turn reusable information into a market by comparing the price of an existing artifact with the cost of creating it again.
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How AI Doomerism Could Shape Regulation
Warnings that AI could wipe out jobs can make the technology feel like an urgent political crisis, giving leading labs more influence over the rules that follow.
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Judge AI Spending by Its Return
When AI turns a predictable software bill into variable consumption, businesses need to measure the extra value each increment of spending buys.
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Personal Agents Could Undercut Consumer Inertia
Persistent personal agents could weaken businesses that profit when customers postpone the work of finding a better deal.
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Purpose-Built Robots Beat Humanoids at Home
The strongest case for household automation is a machine that reliably removes a defined chore, not a humanoid whose broad capabilities may never justify its cost.
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Sell the AI outcome, not the stack
Businesses can adopt AI more easily when one provider translates a desired outcome into a complete working service.
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The founder’s portfolio
Cheap AI experimentation lets a solo founder spread entrepreneurial risk across several business ideas instead of staking everything on one company.
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The replication advantage
AI lets small software entrants reproduce established products at far lower cost, creating a temporary opening to attack margins once protected by expensive technology.
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The slow drain on software margins
Cheap AI replication gives lean entrants an opening against high-margin software incumbents, but slow customer switching could stretch the contest over years.
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When a product listing costs more than the stock can bear
Live commerce makes awkward inventory economical to sell by moving it through a live stream.
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When bigger competitors help
For a small company in an unfamiliar category, larger rivals can bear the cost of teaching buyers before differentiation becomes decisive.
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When revenue still depends on you
A business can earn millions and still remain a time liability when its operation depends on a founder continually sending instructions.
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When small businesses build their own software
AI-built internal tools could let small businesses keep efficiency gains that once flowed to software vendors.
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When startup capital costs control
Rod’s experience shows how raising money to build a technology company can steadily turn a founder with control into an executive accountable to other owners.
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Why More AI Output Isn't More Value
Agent loops can multiply activity at remarkable speed, but the work only matters when it produces something specific, useful and wanted.
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Why SME succession matters to regional communities
When most of an owner’s wealth sits inside a regional business, an absent succession plan puts both a family’s future and a community asset at risk.
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