Field Notes on AI.
Weekly field notes from the front lines building in AI. A Founder's perspectives on AI deployment and the future of work. Keep up with the latest AI news, funding moves, and agentic AI strategies.
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What It Costs to Upskill a Workforce on AI in 2026
Realistic training budgets, where they fail, and the 90-day checkpoints that separate ROI from waste.
AI training budgets in 2026 run from $800 to $3,500 per employee — but most fail to deliver because they fund the tools without funding the time, the practice, or the workflow-specific scenarios. Here is what real upskilling actually costs, where most budgets break, and the 90-day adoption checkpoints that separate ROI from waste.
Field Notes from the Frontlines of the AI Agent Wars + the SaaSpocalypse
The turning points reshaping the future of work in 2026.
The major moves shaking up the AI market in 2026 — funding moves, acquisitions, emerging trends, the rise of MCP and agentic AI, labor impacts, data center pushback, public sentiment, and growing cybersecurity threats. A field operator's read on the year's defining shifts.
Why We Built the AI Forward Framework
Orchestration is what stands between fast and catastrophic.
As complexity grows, orchestration matters more than tool selection. With agentic AI, mistakes can be made at scale — which means orchestration is the difference between deployment success and systemic risk. Here's why we built a framework to address that gap directly.