There’s a moment that sticks with me from a strategy meeting last year. A SaaS founder was pitching his AI-powered analytics platform to investors, confidently projecting 90% gross margins, the magic number that makes VCs salivate. One investor stopped him mid-sentence: “Walk me through your actual unit economics. What does serving each customer really cost […]

I’ve logged over a decade embedding AI into business lifelines, from chaotic supply chains to high-stakes boardrooms. Take a retail chain I revamped in 2024; they were bleeding on overstock, returns piling up. Simple AI demand sensing flipped it: Inventory optimized, waste down 27%, profits up 19% within a year. By January 2026, agentic extensions […]

Twelve years ago, I cut my teeth on enterprise software rollouts, but AI flipped the script during a 2023 turnaround for a faltering logistics powerhouse. Legacy spreadsheets couldn’t hack volatile routes; we crafted an AI-driven strategy layering predictive analytics atop agentic dispatchers. Costs plunged 24%, and expansion accelerated into new markets. Fast-forward to January 2026: […]