The AI Capability Series
One argument,
two lengths.
Three papers on what AI does to the capability of an organisation over time, and what to build instead. Each one also exists as four short articles, so you can take the argument at whatever length you have time for. The twelve short pieces run in sequence, but each stands alone.
If you have three minutes
Start at the beginning
Twelve short articles, numbered in order. Each ends with something to try this week.
Start with 01 · The Tool Never Tells You No →If you have half an hour
Take the whole argument
Three whitepapers, fully referenced, readable here or downloadable as a PDF.
Begin with Part One →Whitepaper · Trinzo
The Flywheel and the Frenzy
Navigating the AI Turning Point
AI amplifies what an organisation already has. It does not manufacture what it lacks.
The same argument in four short reads
- 01 The Tool Never Tells You No Three years ago I would not have believed how much these tools would extend my own work. I read organisations for a living: structuring problems, building arguments, finding the… 3 min
- 02 Quite Confident Tell a British colleague their plan is quite good and you have told them it is adequate and you have reservations. 3 min
- 03 Someone Else Is Paying for Your Learning The prediction first, with the confidence attached, so it can be held against me later. A correction is coming. 3 min
- 04 The Flywheel Does Not Turn at One Desk A document arrives from a colleague. It is well structured, the prose is clean, the argument moves. 3 min
Whitepaper · Trinzo
Cognitive Rusting
What Organisations Lose When They Automate Their People
The workflow most firms call responsible deployment quietly removes the practice that built the judgment.
The same argument in four short reads
- 05 The Reviewer Trap The machine generates the draft. The human reviews it. 3 min
- 06 Your Graduate Programme Is a Client-Development Pipeline Take a graduate intake from ten years ago and follow it forward. A couple are still with the firm, one on partner track. 3 min
- 07 The Dependency Nobody Has Priced Two risks are sitting in most organisations right now, and they are owned by different people. 3 min
- 08 What Clients Are Actually Buying Your client can now produce a decent version of your deliverable without you. Not as good, probably, but competent, structured and available on a Tuesday evening for the price of a… 3 min
Whitepaper · Trinzo
The Scaffolding of Intellect
Method Over Magic: How Organisations Tame a Non-Robust Technology
When the models commoditise, method is the last available differentiator.
The same argument in four short reads
- 09 Workslop Does Not Look Like Slop Three findings from the past eighteen months, all measured rather than asserted. 3 min
- 10 Checking Is Now More Expensive Than Doing I have been saying something for about two years that is not quite right, and since this series is partly about verification, I should correct it in public. 3 min
- 11 Ten Steps at Ninety Percent Take a piece of knowledge work with ten steps in it and suppose each step is carried out correctly ninety percent of the time. 3 min
- 12 The Professions That Never Had to Build an Immune System A litigator, a radiologist, an auditor and a historian have something important in common. It is not a technical education, and it is not intelligence. 3 min