What I'm focused on now

Nashville

Thinking

When intelligence is ambient, advantage moves up the stack. Models are cheap and getting cheaper—the cost of intelligence just hit zero. What’s defensible is the workflow, the SOP, the harness, the tooling. That’s the moat.

The other live thread: agent-era infrastructure. Five layers—rails, protocols, discovery, identity, payments—have to be rebuilt now that the user isn’t human. Recent pieces on discovery and identity push the work, and the agent-era infrastructure map tracks the rest.

Reading

Long-form is still on hold; this is what’s bouncing around the tabs.

Working

We are in the early years of the largest commercial reorganization since the internet. And most companies are wasting it. AI is driving it. Upshift is the mechanism I built to help professional services firms act on it. Past launch and into the engine—a revenue calculator and assessment are live, with recent talks and podcasts making the case in public.

Outside Upshift, I’m running a large go-to-market project with a Bitcoin financial services firm and advising a handful of frontier tech founders. Details of how I work.

Building

Writing

Sideband is focused on agent-era infrastructure and also appears alongside the rest of my writing on go-to-market and Bitcoin.

Podcasting

Trust Revolution is the podcast I host. Season 3 wrapped earlier this year—seven episodes on digital autonomy, surveillance, data sovereignty, and Bitcoin’s unfinished fight. Winding down. Season 4 is undecided.