The AI Strategy Deck Won't Save You
Welcome to The Prompt Stack!
Every week, another breathless announcement. Another frontier model. Another company claiming AI will change everything. Meanwhile, teams six months into their "AI transformation" are discovering the real patterns: what breaks, what sticks, and what actually moves the needle.
Welcome to The Prompt Stack - where implementation meets reality.
What This Is
The Prompt Stack explores what happens after the demo, when the consultants leave, and the meter starts running. These are field notes from actual AI transformations: the gap between what vendors promise and what organizations ship.
Expect analysis on:
- Implementation patterns that survive contact with production
- Economic reality of AI adoption - who captures value and who pays
- Organizational physics - how AI actually changes power, workflows, and culture
- Technical truth without the hand-waving - what Claude, ChatGPT, and agents really do
This isn't another AI newsletter. It's a systematic exploration of how organizations build competitive advantage with generative AI - or fail trying.
What You'll Get
2x Weekly posts (typically Tuesdays and Thursdays) that dive deep on one transformative insight.
Recent topics:
- Why composable AI architectures beat monolithic platforms
- The hidden "complexity payment" in every AI strategy
- What developers discover after 6 months with Claude Code
- How AI creates new power centers in organizations
Practical playbooks in every post—3-5 concrete actions you can test within two weeks. No generic "embrace AI" nonsense. Specific moves tied to specific problems.
Real patterns, not press releases. Examples from actual implementations, with the friction and failure left in. The goal: help you see around corners in your own AI transformation.
Who This Is For
CTOs and technology leaders implementing AI at scale. Product managers building AI-native features. Strategy consultants who need to understand what's actually possible. Anyone tired of AI hype who wants to understand AI reality.
If you're looking for "10 Amazing ChatGPT Prompts," this isn't it. If you want to understand why some organizations get 10x returns from AI while others burn millions on pilots that never ship, you're in the right place.
The Stakes
The gap between AI leaders and laggards is widening. Not because of access to models - everyone has that. But because some organizations understand the implementation game: how to compose tools, orchestrate workflows, and capture value. Others are still buying "AI-powered" versions of the same software they've always used.
The Prompt Stack is about building the former, not becoming the latter.