My Work and Companies
The lanes I work in and the frames I keep coming back to. Ten lanes, one through line, then each idea stated plainly so you can quote it back.
Human-first AI, built on data I actually own.
Ten lanes, the frames I keep coming back to, and the companies where it all gets built. One through line, branching out. Open any branch.
Each frame, written out
Agents do the work
The engine: what the agents are and how they run.
AI agentsLANE
Software that does the work, not just the talking. A human still decides; the agent does the heavy lifting of the minutiae.
World models & predictionsLANE
Nightly, an agent reads my data, forecasts what is about to move, and gives a first step. I show the misses too.
Agents on data you actually ownFRAME
A 26,000-person trust graph and a 214,579-award federal database, mistakes included. Competitors structurally cannot copy it.
Read the full frame →The verifier gapFRAME
Where the agents lie. An agent forecasts, a human verifies, and I show the misses, not just the wins.
Read the full frame →Collaboration.AiCOMPANY
Our software runs innovation programs across the US government. We mapped and activated AFWERX's 50,000-plus innovator ecosystem at 96% satisfaction. I am Executive Chairman.
Visit →Humans stay at the center
The posture: people first, then the robots, on purpose.
Human-first AILANE
People at the center, agents on the busywork. Not AI instead of people: humans first, then the robots.
Read the full frame →CollaborationLANE
Twenty-five years of method for how people decide and build together. A patented way to compress nine months of work into three days.
Human-first, definedFRAME
The word order is the point. People stay central; agents take the minutiae.
Read the full frame →Connector, not brokerFRAME
Across 2,825 introductions over 21 years, 97.4% were unsolicited. I would rather give without keeping score than take a cut.
Read the full frame →Change the work, not the slides
The job: transformation that actually moves something.
The future of workLANE
The old manual way is fading. Most leaders still hire and train for it. I help them stop.
InnovationLANE
Not theater. The test is simple: show what changed. My company runs these programs across the US government.
AI transformationLANE
Moving an organization from doing the work by hand to running it alongside agents, without losing the people. 32 Fortune 100 transformations.
The four sandboxesFRAME
The four ways work happens now, Human to Human, Human to Agent, Agent to Agent, Agent to Human. Every interaction lands in one.
Effort is a moatFRAME
If the work clearly took real human effort and real data, it cannot be pure AI slop. You cannot fake twenty years of your own data.
Read the full frame →Show what changedFRAME
Information-age work asks if you made the document. Human-first work asks if anything actually changed.
United We TransformCOMPANY
A movement and a 10,000 square foot collaboration space in Minnesota, plus the book of the same name (co-authored with Tom Kehner), gathering purpose-driven people to turn connection into real action.
Visit →Raising the next generation out loud
The heart: teaching the kids coming up, in public.
The next generation of workLANE
What work looks like for the kids coming up, and how to teach them to do well in it.
The AI DadLANE
A dad of three, raising kids in an AI world out loud. The human heart under all of it. Shared at @ai_dad_3.
The AI Dad, definedFRAME
Teaching the next generation what work looks like in a human-first AI world. The warm one: kids ask good questions and bring it home.
Open Work LabCOMPANY
Where the human-first AI ideas get built and tested in the open. The agents, the world model, the daily forecasts, including the parts that do not work yet.
Build in publicWhat comes after agents
The horizon: watching the next shift early, in public.
QuantumLANE
The next shift after agents. I watch it the way I watched AI early: closely, and in public. Find a stuck system, build the thing that unsticks it.