Pallas Advisory

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

Not workslop, not thinkslop. The third failure finally has a name, and the fix isn't writing shorter.

Pallas Advisory

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

Jul 22, 2026

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2 min read

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

Same URL, two realities: my browser got the real article. Here's the 30-second check that catches it.

Pallas Advisory

Jul 15, 2026

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3 min read

The Week Everyone Agreed

Who catches your AI's mistakes?

Pallas Advisory

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

If the answer is "the model resolves contradictions," you're reading marketing.

Pallas Advisory

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

Jul 1, 2026

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2 min read

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

Big companies blew entire AI budgets in months. Small teams feel the same math sooner.

Pallas Advisory

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

Not access controls. Not audit logs. A checkpoint most teams skipped — and it isn't technical.

Pallas Advisory

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

One was retracted by its own author four years ago. It's still everywhere.

Pallas Advisory

Jun 10, 2026

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3 min read

Is your week mostly doing, or deciding?

Two numbers this week just put a price tag on the answer.

Pallas Advisory

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

It hides two different decisions inside one sentence. Most repeated work needs judgment, not a script.

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85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

May 27, 2026

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2 min read

85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

The hours are real. The free time isn't.

Pallas Advisory

May 20, 2026

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3 min read

If your IT team blocks AI, read this

Three moves to make before you accept the lockdown, and what it tells you if none of them work.

Pallas Advisory

When your AI takes action, who's actually checking?

May 6, 2026

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3 min read

When your AI takes action, who's actually checking?

If you don't know, that's a problem.

Pallas Advisory

You can hear the tells in everyone else's writing. Can you hear them in your own?

Apr 29, 2026

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3 min read

You can hear the tells in everyone else's writing. Can you hear them in your own?

Familiarity feels like fluency. It isn't.

Pallas Advisory

Your team's AI output looks great. Can anyone tell you if it's wrong?

Apr 22, 2026

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3 min read

Your team's AI output looks great. Can anyone tell you if it's wrong?

AI eliminates the junior work. It also eliminates how people learn.

Pallas Advisory

Zapier has more agents than employees. Your marketing team is still organized like it's 2015.

Apr 15, 2026

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5 min read

Zapier has more agents than employees. Your marketing team is still organized like it's 2015.

The operating unit changed. The org chart didn't.

Pallas Advisory

I built marketing departments for a decade. I wouldn't do it again.

Apr 8, 2026

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5 min read

I built marketing departments for a decade. I wouldn't do it again.

The org chart can wait. Your customers can't.

Pallas Advisory

You bent your business to fit Salesforce. AI agent products want you to do it again.

Apr 1, 2026

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6 min read

You bent your business to fit Salesforce. AI agent products want you to do it again.

Custom used to require 3 developers and 6 months. That excuse for vendor conformity is gone.

Pallas Advisory

Your CRM is mostly empty. That's not your fault.

Mar 25, 2026

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6 min read

Your CRM is mostly empty. That's not your fault.

You don't need deal stages. You need to remember what Sarah said on Tuesday.

Pallas Advisory

Remember your cable bill? Your AI subscription is next

Mar 18, 2026

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6 min read

Remember your cable bill? Your AI subscription is next

$750/month. Every tool chosen for one job. Every tool replaceable. That's the architecture bundles prevent.

Pallas Advisory

Everyone's building AI systems. Nobody's letting them push back.

Mar 11, 2026

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6 min read

Everyone's building AI systems. Nobody's letting them push back.

She reviewed her own upgrade spec and found three problems I missed.

Pallas Advisory

Your AI assistant has a favorite vendor. You didn't pick it.

Mar 4, 2026

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6 min read

Your AI assistant has a favorite vendor. You didn't pick it.

Free website plugins now let any company permanently bias your AI's recommendations. Here's what to do.

Pallas Advisory

What if "I can't afford to help" stopped being true?

Feb 18, 2026

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6 min read

What if "I can't afford to help" stopped being true?

A community platform for multiple organizations. One weekend. Less than a coffee.

Pallas Advisory

Why your 5-person team beats a Fortune 500 at AI (and the data proves it)

Feb 11, 2026

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6 min read

Why your 5-person team beats a Fortune 500 at AI (and the data proves it)

Small businesses are outperforming enterprises on AI ROI. The reason is structural, not scrappy.

Pallas Advisory

AI generated 20 docs in 3 hours. Then the real work started.

Jan 28, 2026

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5 min read

AI generated 20 docs in 3 hours. Then the real work started.

The gap between "AI did it" and "it's actually done" is where your experience lives.

Pallas Advisory

Your years of experience just became more valuable (McKinsey agrees)

Jan 21, 2026

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5 min read

Your years of experience just became more valuable (McKinsey agrees)

McKinsey says 57% of work hours are already automatable. But their real finding is about where human value concentrates.

Pallas Advisory

Pallas Advisory

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

The Week Everyone Agreed

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

Is your week mostly doing, or deciding?

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

If your IT team blocks AI, read this

When your AI takes action, who's actually checking?

You can hear the tells in everyone else's writing. Can you hear them in your own?

Your team's AI output looks great. Can anyone tell you if it's wrong?

Zapier has more agents than employees. Your marketing team is still organized like it's 2015.

I built marketing departments for a decade. I wouldn't do it again.

You bent your business to fit Salesforce. AI agent products want you to do it again.

Your CRM is mostly empty. That's not your fault.

Remember your cable bill? Your AI subscription is next

Everyone's building AI systems. Nobody's letting them push back.

Your AI assistant has a favorite vendor. You didn't pick it.

What if "I can't afford to help" stopped being true?

Why your 5-person team beats a Fortune 500 at AI (and the data proves it)

AI generated 20 docs in 3 hours. Then the real work started.

Your years of experience just became more valuable (McKinsey agrees)

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