Right now, someone in your company is pasting client data into ChatGPT
Most CEOs of mid-sized companies do not know it is happening. Most will not, until it becomes a problem with a name, a date, and a legal notice attached.
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Everyone says 2026 is the year AI changes everything. You are still in committee.
Morgan Stanley told institutional money to brace for something. GPT-5.4 is already at expert level on economically valuable tasks. The curve gets steeper from here.
A five-person company is going to outcompete you in 2026. Here is how.
Sam Altman's near-term vision: companies of one to five people outcompeting large incumbents. This is not science fiction. It is a description of something already happening.
There are four stages. Most companies are stuck in stage one.
Most companies are in stage one and calling it a strategy. Here is what the four stages actually look like, and what separates the ones moving through them.