AI strategist · operator · writer
Thirty years building companies. Now I build the systems that run them.
I am an operator and a builder. I co-founded OpenExO with Salim Ismail, sit on the faculty at Singularity University, and build Founder OS, an AI operating system for founder-operators. I write about AI leverage and operational architecture, and my book Founder Scaled is the playbook for building a business worth buying, even if you never sell.
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Founder OS
An AI operating system for founder-operators
You built a real business. Revenue, customers, a team that works. And the strengths that built it are now the constraints that limit it, because too much of the operating model still lives in your head.
Founder OS installs that operating model as a working system: 72 operational skills across eight domains, wired into Claude, personalized to your company, and yours to keep. Installed leverage, not another tool to manage.
What I'm building
Founder OS::LABS
RunningThe weekly lab where business owners put AI to work in their companies. Three things: the Founder OS system, coaching every Wednesday, and capability they shape and keep.
OpenExO
Co-founderThe global community and platform for Exponential Organizations, co-founded with Salim Ismail.
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WritingA newsletter on AI, leverage, and how operators actually put both to work. New essays land here first.
Founder Scaled
The bookThe AI-powered playbook for building a business worth buying, even if you never sell. A 24-month path out of being the bottleneck.
Recent essays, analysis, and field notes
On AI leverage and operational architecture. The full archive lives on the blog.
Wealth Is Context
Data is not the asset. Context is: data your AI can both reach and trust. Why capability is rented, context is owned, and the moat is elapsed time.
Experience, Repriced
Grading a 2024 essay on AI and the skilled generalist, twenty-two months later. Experience was not commoditized, it was repriced: the legible half went to zero and the illegible half absorbed the premium.
The Expert Costume
Sounding like an expert just became free; being one did not. What an expert actually is, why expertise still requires experience, and why judgment with scar tissue is the one asset this era rewards.
Who Has More Compute? The Frontier Labs, Ranked for Service Delivery
A mid-2026 snapshot of frontier-lab compute, ranked for consistent service delivery. The announced-versus-online gap is the whole story: Google DeepMind and Anthropic lead, and almost everyone is smaller than their headlines.
AI Is the New Other
Civilization began when we stopped fearing the stranger and started sharing with him. AI is the new Other, the same fear reflex is firing, and the next leap belongs to whoever breaks it first.
Hello, World, Five Ways
Five Hello, World programs written and verified through a three-stage agent pipeline. Three ran for real, two passed by inspection, and the line counts trace how much ceremony each language demands.
Founder Scaled
The AI-Powered Playbook for Building a Business Worth Buying, Even If You Never Sell.
For founders of $5M to $25M businesses who have become the bottleneck. A 24-month path to systematize your expertise, deploy AI to amplify your people instead of replacing them, and reduce your dependency until you own a business worth buying, whether or not you ever sell.
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