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In short
strategy1's essays are long-form arguments on how AI changes the way companies decide and how strategy consulting works: strategy that runs, annual planning cycles, pods instead of pyramids, human sign-off and buying strategy on proof. Each essay makes one sourced claim, ends with the strongest case against itself and discloses its AI use.
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Five arguments, one method
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Strategy that runs, not strategy that sits
A deck freezes the strategy at the moment it is presented. Markets do not wait for the next annual plan. Here is what a strategy that updates with its evidence looks like.strategy1Essay5 min read · strategy1Topics: Future & TransformationMethod & trust - Essay5 min read
Your market moves monthly. Your strategy cycle is annual.
Exponential organisations change faster than the plans written for them. The fix is not a faster deck. It is a model of the business that is kept current.strategy1Essay5 min read · strategy1Topics: Future & TransformationGrowth & Market - Essay4 min read
Pods, not pyramids
AI does not remove the strategist. It removes the layers between the question and the person who answers it. What a small senior team can now carry.strategy1Essay4 min read · strategy1Topics: Future & TransformationMethod & trust - Essay5 min read
Humans hold the gates
The most important part of an AI-native strategy firm is not the model. It is the signature. Why every decision we make passes a named person first.strategy1Essay5 min read · strategy1Topics: Method & trustFuture & Transformation - Essay5 min read
Proof before proposal
Buying strategy has always meant paying before you see the thinking. We would rather solve one real problem in front of you, then talk about the next.strategy1Essay5 min read · strategy1Topics: Method & trust
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How we write them
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One argument, sourced
Each essay makes one claim. Every fact in it opens a note with its source, its date and its grade, in words.
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Where it is weakest
Each essay ends with the strongest case against itself. The red-team rule applies to our own writing too.
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AI use, disclosed
Researched and drafted with AI assistance (Claude). Argued, edited and approved by strategy1.
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