Pallas Advisory

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

73% of enterprises invest in AI decision-making. 49% trust it.

Jan 14, 2026

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6 min read

73% of enterprises invest in AI decision-making. 49% trust it.

The gap reveals something enterprises spent decades accidentally destroying—that you might still have.

Pallas Advisory

AI isn't a technology problem. It's a management problem.

Jan 7, 2026

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6 min read

AI isn't a technology problem. It's a management problem.

Wharton's Ethan Mollick nailed it last week: Can you specify goals? Provide context? Design checkpoints? That's not AI literacy. That's management.

Pallas Advisory

Dec 17, 2025

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5 min read

You've already hit at least three of these

Holiday Slowdown Bingo — screenshot it, play along

Pallas Advisory

Dec 10, 2025

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5 min read

The AI advice I gave in January looks different now

2024 was about adoption. 2025 was about architecture. Here's the shift.

Pallas Advisory

Dec 3, 2025

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6 min read

The job skill everyone wants but nobody can define

The gap between "uses AI" and "has a system for AI" is invisible — and enormous.

Pallas Advisory

Nov 26, 2025

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4 min read

The Google Ads advice that only works if you're rich

And what to do about it before Q1 planning locks in

Pallas Advisory

Nov 19, 2025

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6 min read

Campaign metrics are this decade's "site visitors"

Smart companies evolved from campaign metrics to relationship attribution. Here's the gap that's costing you customers.

Pallas Advisory

Nov 12, 2025

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6 min read

The timezone tool I share with everyone

20 minutes of procrastination solved my biggest daily frustration

Pallas Advisory

Nov 5, 2025

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5 min read

Your attribution data can predict the future - you're just asking wrong questions

The event streams that tell you "what caused this conversion?" also tell you "who's about to churn" - but nobody's running those queries.

Pallas Advisory

Pallas Advisory

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)

73% of enterprises invest in AI decision-making. 49% trust it.

AI isn't a technology problem. It's a management problem.

You've already hit at least three of these

The AI advice I gave in January looks different now

The job skill everyone wants but nobody can define

The Google Ads advice that only works if you're rich

Campaign metrics are this decade's "site visitors"

The timezone tool I share with everyone

Your attribution data can predict the future - you're just asking wrong questions

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