AI readiness

AI Readiness Assessment: A Practical Guide (and Checklist)

Most AI projects fail because teams skip readiness. Here is the four-dimension assessment (data, workflow, talent, adoption) and a checklist you can self-run today.

July 6, 2026 · 6 min read

AI strategy

Alex Karp is half right: most AI spend creates no value. Here is why.

Palantir's Alex Karp says businesses are paying for tokens that create no value. He is right about the problem and wrong about the cause. What mid-market operators should actually take from the meltdown.

July 3, 2026 · 8 min read

AI

AI Isn't Optimizing Advertising. It's Rebuilding It.

The $1 trillion ad industry was built on integration pain. AI just repriced that trade, and the walled gardens' biggest moat is going to zero. Notes on Redseer's new AdTech report.

July 3, 2026 · 4 min read

AI governance

67% of executives think unapproved AI tools already leaked their data. Shadow AI is the risk nobody put on the roadmap.

67% of executives think unapproved AI tools already leaked their data. The risk is not the model you are evaluating. Here is how to turn shadow AI into governed, DPDP-ready AI.

July 2, 2026 · 4 min read

Agentic commerce

74% would trust an AI agent over their best friend to buy. What agentic commerce means for consumer brands.

74% would trust an AI agent over their best friend to buy. Discovery is moving from search to AI answers. Here is how consumer brands win the shift from SEO to AEO.

July 2, 2026 · 4 min read

agentic AI

Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled. Here is what the survivors do differently.

Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic AI projects to be cancelled and only 23% of teams see real ROI. The agents are not the problem. Here is what the survivors do differently.

July 2, 2026 · 4 min read

Sales

Top AI-Powered CRM Platforms Suitable for Indian Sales Teams (2026)

Zoho, Freshsales, LeadSquared, Salesforce and more, compared for Indian sales teams on the things that actually decide it: WhatsApp depth, DPDP compliance, and price.

July 1, 2026 · 22 min read

Sales

Best AI tools for improving productivity in a sales team

Conversation intelligence, copilots, enrichment, and autonomous SDRs. The AI sales tools that move the number, plus a five-tool stack and a 90-day rollout.

July 1, 2026 · 15 min read

Perspective

Tokenmaxxing is out. Valuemaxxing is the metric that matters.

Measuring AI by how much you use it was always going to end in a cost reckoning. The fix isn't using less, it's measuring value, and moving your advantage off the model and onto the system around it.

June 30, 2026 · 3 min read