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AI ROI & Measurement

The Post-Subsidy AI Era: Your Playbook as Frontier Costs Rise

Diego Sanz | May 5, 2026 Audio

Usage-based billing has ended the era of subsidized AI. Here is the five-step enterprise playbook — model audits, portfolio routing, escape hatch architecture, and cost scoreboards — for competing on AI economics.

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AI Strategy

The 2028 Intelligence Crisis: The Workforce Gap Now Compounding

Diego Sanz | March 3, 2026 Audio

A provocative scenario from CitriniResearch asks whether AI could destabilize the economy not through failure, but through success. We analyze the thesis, the counterarguments, and what history tells us about transitions of this magnitude.