Field notes

What it takes to put AI on the books.

Short pieces on the work itself: AI spend that doesn't reconcile, baselines nobody wrote down, attribution rules that decide the answer, and the arguments a finance team actually has about all three. Published as they're written.

Getting to AI ROI in six weeks

A week-by-week plan for answering 'what did the AI spend return?' before the board meets: what you can't prove in six weeks, what you can, and what to hand over.

Read these in a reader: subscribe to the RSS feed.