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**** The two most powerful AI companies in the world just admitted something. Capability was never the problem. OpenAI and Anthropic both recently announced they’re partnering with, or outright launching, deployment companies. Sit with what that means. They’ve spent years building the most capable models ever created. And they just conceded, publicly, that the model isn’t the bottleneck. Getting it into your actual work is. So they’re coming to find the workflows themselves.

**** Two of the most powerful people in AI just admitted they got it wrong. Sam Altman. Dario Amodei. Both walked back their job apocalypse predictions this week. ​ The data has been saying it for two years. The IMF at Davos: 60% of jobs in advanced economies will materially change. Not disappear... change. The WEF puts it even more precisely: 92 million jobs displaced, 170 million created. That's a net positive of 78 million jobs. ​ This is the Luddite fallacy playing out in

**** Integration is where all the value with AI is. Organizations are handing out tools. People are trying things. And according to McKinsey and BCG, somewhere between 94 and 96% are getting worse results after integration, not better. That’s the J-Curve. They grabbed something that looked like a solution, pointed it at the noise, and made the noise louder. The 5% that are compounding results are doing one thing differently. They identified the business constraint first. Then

**** Every leader I work with is trying to solve something. More sales. Better margins. A team that isn't stretched thin. A business that doesn't rely entirely on them showing up every day. And almost all of them start in the wrong place. They go straight to the thing that's bothering them. The thing that's loudest in the room that week. And I get it. When you're already overwhelmed, when AI is everywhere and everyone seems to understand it but you, when you can feel your com

**** I spend a lot of time in rooms with enterprise leaders navigating what AI means for their organizations. I get to do the same thing with 90 to 120 small business owners a year who are working through Levership cohorts. I also spend time with our own portfolio figuring out the same thing. The conversations look different depending on the size of the room. But the question underneath all of them is the same. What is actually happening here? You may have gathered my opinion

**** Quick note before your regular post this week. We're hosting a free one-hour session on May 21st and wanted to make sure you have the option to join. We ran one in April exclusively for our past AI attendees and the feedback from leaders was strong enough that we're opening it up again. This time to our entire newsletter list. AI is moving fast. Most leaders know they need to do something about it. Few have a clear picture of where things actually stand. That's what this

**** Last night, I was honored to be named among Atlantic Canada's Top 50 CEOs for the fifth time and inducted into the Hall of Fame. Standing in that room with so many remarkable leaders, I found myself reflecting on the lessons that brought me there. I want to share some of them with you. ​ The most important lesson I've ever learned My grandmother, the matriarch of our family, once told me something that stuck: if you don't like it, don't get good at it. I may have taken t

Matt @ Levership OpenAI released a new feature every 3 days in 2025. I'm telling you that because if you've been feeling like you can't keep up, you're right. You can't. Nobody can. But trying to is the wrong goal anyway. Here's what I actually care about for the businesses I work with: I don't need your HVAC company to know what Anthropic released last Tuesday. I need your HVAC company to be ahead of the other HVAC companies. I don't need your sign shop tracking every new mo

**** If you read the note I sent a couple of weeks ago, you’ll know we are entering a new era of AI. It’s only been about six weeks, and tools with these new capabilities are being released rapidly. And I want to go deeper into an example I shared to illustrate the new capabilities that have been unlocked for business leaders. Because it is mind blowing. Game changing. Or as our team member recently put it, “absolutely unreal.” A few weeks ago I set a seven-sentence prompt

**** Most business owners I talk to are still treating AI like something on the horizon. It's not on the horizon. One BMW factory has 30% of its line driven by humanoid robots right now. Those humanoids don’t call in sick, they replace their own batteries, and they cost $6.97 an hour. Three nights ago, we found a struggling small recruiting business 25 high-signal leads and left her with the AI enabled process (that can run at night) to find hundreds more. Lead gen now costs