Essays — not posts. Briefs from inside engagements, written when the market gives us a reason.
MPS BRIEF
JULY 2026
FEATURED
OpenAI just shipped an agent that delivers finished work — the deck, the forecast, the account plan. The question isn’t whether the work is good. It’s whether anyone agreed on what to aim at first.
By David Morris & Jeff Culliton
3 MIN
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MPS BRIEF
JUNE 2026
88% of companies use AI regularly. Only 32% report tangible impact. Three reports this spring — WEF, Accenture, HBR — all land in the same place. It was never a capability problem. It’s a deployment one.
3 MIN
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MPS BRIEF
JUNE 2026
Everyone’s hiring builders. But the AI stall happens one layer up — where someone has to decide what to build, and that person almost never exists.
3 MIN
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MPS BRIEF
JUNE 2026
HCLTech says 43% of enterprise AI initiatives will fail. The read is right — and incomplete. The gap isn’t enablement. It’s that no one owns the outcome by name.
3 MIN
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MPS BRIEF
JUNE 2026
“Headless” is the term every mid-market CEO is using and almost nobody is defining. What executives actually want, where it breaks, and the unglamorous on-ramp.
6 MIN
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MPS BRIEF
07 MAY 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic just raised $5.5B to embed engineers inside PE portcos and rebuild workflows around AI. The structural read is correct — and incomplete.
5 MIN
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DIAGNOSTIC
SELF-GUIDED
Four questions. Five minutes. One per stage of the methodology — the order matters. A self-diagnostic for the leadership team.
5 MIN
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