Insights
Essays on what is changing.
Short pieces from Mireto on AI strategy, defensibility and the structural shifts reshaping commercial, government and not-for-profit organizations.
For executives
StrategyJuly 29, 20265 min read
An activity list is not a strategy
Most organizations don't have an AI strategy. They have an AI activity list. The difference is structural, and compounding.
StrategyJuly 2, 20264 min read
Why you need an AI strategy
Most organizations are running AI as a project. It is not one. In three years the organizations in front will be the ones that moved with a clear view of where they were going, not the ones that moved fastest.
StrategyJune 24, 20267 min read
What remains defensible in an AI-restructured market
The engineering moat is gone. Four moats remain, and they are not equal. Which moat you hold decides whether you stay defensible.
GovernmentJune 15, 20267 min read
Legitimacy is the real moat in the public sector
The frameworks that organize commercial AI strategy break down in government. There, legitimacy is the moat that capability cannot buy.
Not-for-profitsJune 6, 20267 min read
Mission is the real moat for not-for-profits
As AI restructures the sector, technology stops being a moat for not-for-profits. Mission is the one that lasts.
WorkforceMay 11, 20262 min read
What used to be a hire is now a workflow
AI has broken the link between headcount and output. Work you would once have hired for now runs as a workflow, which changes how you build the team and who you hire next.
StrategyMay 2, 20262 min read
You do not have to accept the template anymore
When building software cost millions, you had to accept the template. You do not anymore, now that the economic logic forcing businesses into sameness has collapsed.
StrategyApril 23, 20262 min read
The end of forced sameness
For four decades, software made you change your business to fit the tool. When building costs fall, the specific way you work stops being an expensive problem and becomes your advantage.
For firm principals
MarketsJuly 11, 20262 min read
Judgment is the product now
AI is collapsing the cost of analysis, the thing advisory firms have always sold by the hour. The firms that come out ahead will sell judgment, productize delivery and serve the clients the old model priced out.
MarketsMay 28, 20262 min read
The trillion-dollar gap that is closing
Consulting and integration giants built trillion-dollar businesses on closing the gap between generic software and real organizations. AI is now closing it for them.
For researchers & advisors