Chiri blog
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Your Private Brain
Your company's alpha, the actual judgment behind its best decisions, deserves the same protection as any asset a competitor could copy, and rarely gets it.
The Ping-Pong of Fear
Every AI vendor conversation bounces between two fears: will this cut headcount, and will my team have to learn a new tool. Chiri's actual answer to both.
The Return of the MSP
SaaS pricing pain isn't killing the middleman, it's funding a leaner, AI-run version of the managed service provider. Here's how the MSP model returns.
The AI Food Chain
AI vendors sell into different tiers: sovereignty priced for the Fortune 50, or convenience paid for with your data. Here's how to tell which you're buying.
The Subsidy Cliff
SemiAnalysis tested what happens when AI token pricing stops being subsidized. Here's what a real token bill means for your AI roadmap when it hits.
Cheap, Fast, and Ignored
Non-domestic AI models hit near-frontier scores at three percent of the price on the latest Terminal-Bench leaderboard, yet adoption still lags behind.
The Human Rate Limit
AI agents now write code faster than any team can read it. The real constraint was never generation, it was code review, and that gap keeps widening.
The Rented Land Problem
AI has made building bespoke software as cheap as renting it, collapsing the SaaS-vs-services divide as public SaaS valuation multiples keep compressing fast.
The Unbadged Employee
Employees pass HIPAA and SOC 2 audits every year. Most AI agents still don't. This piece asks whether your compliance program even covers AI agents yet.
The Death of the Status Call
Status decks and weekly calls are giving way to real-time dashboards. See why audit trace, not narrative, is becoming the real AI consulting deliverable now.
The Immutable Employee File
Blockchain's most mocked idea may be the only credible way to govern an AI agent workforce: an immutable record of what agents did and who approved it.
The Casino Chip Economy
AI token spending creates a new business cost. Learn why leaders need usage tracking and accurate pricing to manage that cost.