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The Pre-Mortem, Accelerated: Using AI to Kill Your Plan Before It Kills You
Most executives know the pre-mortem. Very few use it. The concept, developed by psychologist Gary Klein and popularized in organizational strategy circles by Daniel Kahneman, is disarmingly simple. Before committing to a major decision, you imagine it is twelve months in the future and the initiative has failed catastrophically. You then work backward to explain what went wrong. The exercise forces a team to surface its private doubts, challenge its shared assumptions, and co
Jun 124 min read
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Are You Operating in the Wrong Era of AI?
January 2026 marked another structural inflection point in the AI revolution: the emergence of autonomous agentic AI, now rapidly reconfiguring how solopreneurs and enterprises adopt and deploy AI systems. Like a lobster molting its shell, the technology has undergone another fundamental transformation. And looking back through this lens, three distinct, evidence-supported eras come into focus, each with its own defining vibe, its own core capabilities, and its own strategic
Mar 106 min read
The 10 AI Moments That Reshaped Everything
The pace of AI improvements is breathtaking. We are living through another "temporal compression event" where generational technological change is condensed into months rather than years. Since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT to the public on November 30, 2022, I have tracked AI's evolution as both a practitioner and author. And periodically, I've found it useful to step back and identify the inflection points that actually bent the trajectory of the industry, the economy, an
Mar 47 min read
Your 6-Week Workout Plan for Claude
One of the most frequent requests I get from executives and business owners sounds like this: "Severin, just give me an exercise plan. A workout plan. Something I can follow day by day to actually get good at this AI thing." I love that framing. Because most people miss this: getting value from AI isn't about one magical prompt. It's about building a practice in the same way you'd build physical fitness. Nobody walks into a gym on Day 1 and deadlifts 400 pounds. You follow a
Mar 14 min read
Why Markdown is the Operating System for Your Executive AI
In the early days of the AI boom, we were told that "prompting" was about talking to a machine like a human. But as business leaders and executive coaches, we’ve learned that "just talking" to AI often leads to inconsistent results, "hallucinations," and a lack of brand voice. If you want an AI that doesn’t just respond, but actually executes like a member of your senior staff, you need to move beyond the chat box and toward Markdown Prompt Architecture. What is a Markdown D
Feb 254 min read
How to Remain Irreplaceable in the Age of AI
AI is turning coaching from a novelty into a utility. For Chairs and executive coaches, the market is bifurcating: the commodity vs. the craft. To stay relevant, we must hand over the routine tasks to the algorithms and double down on the distinctly human "craft" that no machine can replicate. What AI is Absorbing AI has already reached a level of competency that threatens the traditional "junior coach" or the facilitator who relies solely on structured processes. These eleme
Feb 235 min read
SaaSpocalypse: The 48 Hours That Repriced Work Forever
For decades, the blueprint for growth has been linear: If you wanted more output, you added more "inputs”: You bought Software Seats (Salesforce, Microsoft) to equip your people; You paid Hourly Rates to consultants to solve your problems; and, You Hired More Heads to scale your revenue. It was considered a "Tool & Talent" economy. Success was measured by how many people you had and how well they used their tools.The logic of the last few decades hit a wall between February 3
Feb 135 min read
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