AI Strategy for Government IT Leaders

The Age of Vertical AI Has Begun

I had a tidy theory about where this AI market was headed. Claude Science broke it in one launch. The theory: the model layer is a commodity. DeepSeek was the proof of concept, at least as I read it: a smaller, resourced team closing most of the gap with the

The Government Is Now Inside the Distribution Loop

Since frontier AI became commercially available via API — roughly 2022 onward — the assumption inside large organizations was simple: sign a contract, get access. Government was somewhere downstream, writing policy, setting export rules, reacting to what labs shipped. On June 12, 2026, that assumption cracked. The US government issued an export

Your Next Coworker Doesn't Have an Account. It Is the Account.

I assumed AI assistants were personal. That was the mental model I carried into every conversation about deploying these tools inside an organization. Each person gets their own session. Their own context. Their own relationship with the tool. The agent lives inside your account, answers your questions, forgets everything when

The Tools Were Always The Constraint

The standard theory of competitive advantage went something like this: serious capability requires serious infrastructure. If you wanted to run a real business, you needed a team. If you wanted to train or run competitive AI models, you needed a server room or a cloud bill that could swallow a

What Survives Automation

For years I measured my worth by my output. Faster. Cleaner. More of it. That instinct is now a liability. Here's the shift almost nobody priced in: the new AI doesn't deliver intelligence. It delivers prediction — cheap, fast, endless. And prediction was most of what we

The UI Is the API Now

The demos look like a consumer feature. Gemini 3.5 Flash releases Computer Use — the model sees a screen, clicks buttons, navigates pages, fills forms. The obvious read: AI that browses the web. Feels like a parlor trick with a good marketing deck. That's the wrong frame. There&

On-Device AI + Solopreneur Economy

Frontier AI just stopped being a subscription. It became a default feature of the hardware. Two moves this month made it concrete. Google released a frontier-class model that runs locally on a $1,000 laptop. Offline. No subscription. Memory needs down about 40%. NVIDIA announced a consumer AI chip