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March 2026

Stop Prompting Better. Start Rejecting. The Real AI Skill

This white paper argues that the most defensible competitive advantage in the AI era is not the ability to prompt AI effectively, but the organizational capacity to reject AI output with precision and capture those rejections as institutional knowledge.

By Ashok Murthy, VP & CTO
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March 2026

The Sixth Person Catastrophe: How AI Destroyed Team Economics

Companies are watching their per-person output climb, yet the calendar is fuller than ever. This piece examines the paradox of increased AI tool adoption leading to more meetings and coordination overhead, and how to rethink team structures.

By Ashok Murthy, VP & CTO
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February 2026

Context Layers for LLMs

This paper explores "context engineering"—curating the optimal set of tokens during LLM inference. Architecting the right information environment is the biggest lever for AI performance to avoid "context rot".

By Ashok Murthy, VP & CTO
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February 2026

The Intent Layer: A Missing Architectural Primitive for Autonomous Agents

Context alone is insufficient for autonomous agents. This paper proposes the "intent layer", sitting between raw context and action execution, allowing agents to act with genuine organizational alignment.

By Ashok Murthy, VP & CTO
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Early 2026

The Capability Gap: Why Both the Doomers and Boomers Are Wrong About AI

Challenging extreme AI narratives—from apocalyptic job displacement to instant utopian productivity—and revealing where the actual economic and operational opportunities lie in the next decade.

By Ashok Murthy, VP & CTO
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