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Perspectives from the team on deploying, governing, and measuring autonomous AI agents in the enterprise.
PE Should Require AI Headcount Reduction Targets in the First 100 Days
Private equity firms should stop treating AI efficiency as a vague aspiration and start modeling it as a real operating lever in the first 100 days. That does not mean crude layoffs on day one. It means building a numbers-attached plan for how AI changes engineering team structure, delivery capacity, and cost over the hold period. The firms that sequence this well will outperform. The ones that keep “exploring” will waste precious quarters pretending the math does not exist.
March 17, 2026AI Doesn't Make Your Company More Productive. Your Company Makes AI Productive.
AI does not automatically make a company more productive. It magnifies whatever kind of organization it enters. Companies with strong processes, clean data, and leaders willing to redesign work see meaningful gains. Companies looking for a plug-and-play efficiency miracle usually get disappointment dressed up as innovation.
March 16, 2026