The Agency Headcount Tax
20 people used to be a capability advantage. In 2026 they're an overhead - and the data you hand agencies leaks into public AI APIs. There's a better way.
20 people used to be a capability advantage. In 2026 they're an overhead - and the data you hand agencies leaks into public AI APIs. There's a better way.
For public and bursty workloads, API costs can now undercut the total cost of owning local AI hardware.
AI is devaluing routine agency work and inflating the value of judgment and taste. A non-bloated agency is the cost hack the market hasn't caught up with.
Abstract synthesis vs concrete synthesis - and whether the biggest AI infrastructure buildout in history might be heading the same way as the NFT boom.
The bloated agency is a dead model: overhead is a tax and trust decides who gets bought. Here's what replaces it - a small senior tribe that does the work.
AI content tools promise infinite scale but most produce slop Google filters. Use AI for research and drafting without publishing garbage that tanks authority.
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