Product strategy & systems

ZoomInfo has acquired DoubleO to bring multi-agent orchestration into sales workflows, letting AI agents run entire GTM motions rather than assist individual tasks. From MI6 to AI6 - military intelligence just flipped to marketing intel.

• AI agents
• AI & machine learning
• Product systems
• Venture economics
• Platforms & distribution
• Humans & machines

Spreadsheets aren’t going anywhere. Apparently, the interface of the future is still A1.

• Product systems
• Humans & machines

Databricks is acquiring Row Zero to give business teams a familiar spreadsheet layer over their live, governed enterprise data. The bricks just acquired zero gravity.

• Product systems
• Venture economics

AI video tool Luma can now export AI-generated footage in production-grade formats built for professional VFX and color workflows. Visual Fox Effects: fur rendering, fair compositing

• AI & machine learning
• Media & streaming
• Product systems

Runway has launched the first model router built specifically for generative media - matching image, video and audio jobs to the best-fit model. The models are starting to audition for the workflow.

• AI & machine learning
• Media & streaming
• Product systems

Execution is approaching impulse-purchase economics.

• Product systems
• Venture economics

Once the shopper is an agent browsing through a digital shelf, product placement starts looking a lot like model placement.

• AI agents
• AI & machine learning
• Product systems
• Humans & machines

Anxiety formatted as strategy is the native file type of performative change.

• Product systems

Incentives are just strategy with the subtitles turned on.

• Product systems

Every design has a subconscious. It's called the business model.

• AI & machine learning
• Product systems

When users become builders, product teams become editors. Feature wars leave products with commitment issues. The future belongs to teams with enough clarity to stop shipping and start shaping.

• Product systems
• Humans & machines

Cybersecurity’s most durable feature is still ‘please remember another thing’

• Product systems

Don’t fall in love with your product? Agreed - the situationship with the roadmap tends to accrue technical debt.

• Product systems

Streaming still catalogs stories like libraries; audiences discover them like weather systems - through shifting currents, pressure zones, and brief clearings of cultural visibility. Making scenes programmable shifts discovery logic from shelf to signal.

• Discovery
• Media & streaming
• Product systems

We’re only as fast as the slowest synchronous dependency

• Product systems

Every streaming platform eventually reaches the same conclusion: the real content strategy was the infrastructure we uncovered along the way.

• Media & streaming
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution

There’s a difference between 'How fast can we adopt AI?' and 'Who accidentally plugged our entire content infrastructure into a spreadsheet from 2016?'

• AI & machine learning
• Product systems

Dev tools are being repositioned from issue trackers / project-management systems into the operating layer for human-and-agent software development. Interpretation and agreement are moving upstream - ambiguity just got promoted to the critical path.

• AI agents
• Product systems
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

Every AI workflow eventually becomes philosophical: how many times can the machine afford to rethink the same thing before finance develops consciousness?

• AI & machine learning
• Product systems
• Humans & machines

97% of media companies are looking for an AI strategy. The other 3% are looking for Alex, Alec, Alexa, Alice in Wonderland…

• AI & machine learning
• Media & streaming
• Product systems

AI made information abundantly redundant. The next premium product might just be taste with a mailing list.

• AI & machine learning
• Product systems
• Humans & machines

Microdrama needs macro strategy - the format may be vertical, but the strategy has to think horizontally.

• Product systems

Taste is what keeps integrated systems from becoming integrated noise.

• Product systems
• Humans & machines

The hardest persona to simulate is yourself before you knew the answer.

• Product systems

Outdated roadmaps end up in the Museum of Deprecation.

• Product systems

Every onboarding program eventually becomes a multiplayer game.

• Product systems

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary spreadsheet

• Product systems

In-car streaming: the moment the backseat stopped asking 'are we there yet?' and started expecting a content roadmap.

• Media & streaming
• Product systems

Any good internal tool eventually develops external aspirations

• Product systems

The Circulation Problem of Classical Cinema

From Storage Logic to Circulation Logic

• AI & machine learning
• Discovery
• Media & streaming
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

Everybody Has an Accent

The Universal Ambitions of Local Habits

• AI & machine learning
• Creators & publishing
• Product systems
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

Every design has a subconscious. It's called the business model.

• AI & machine learning
• Product systems

The First Reader

When Product Design Externalizes the Cold Start Problem

• AI & machine learning
• Discovery
• Media & streaming
• Creators & publishing
• Product systems
• Platforms & distribution
• Technology & culture
• Humans & machines

Why we keep handing the steering wheel to people who barely remember where we parked? Filed under: Chronocratic Strategy

• Product systems