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The Model Agnosticism Principles
Jensen Huang picked a fight over open weights. The fight that actually matters to your business is smaller, more concrete, and it’s already inside your vendor contracts. By The Chiri Team Could your business swap the model behind its core AI workflow next quarter, or would that require a re-platform? On July 24, 2026, Jensen…
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Your Private Brain
Alpha isn’t your data. It’s the judgment your best people carry in their heads, and it deserves the same protection as anything else you’d never hand a competitor. By The Chiri Team If a competitor could read the internal reasoning behind your last ten decisions, would your advantage survive it? For a lot of companies…
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The Ping-Pong of Fear
Every AI vendor conversation bounces between the same two questions. Here’s our actual answer to both. By The Chiri Team Are you going to come in and tell us to cut our headcount? That is the first question in almost every conversation we have with a prospective client. The second one lands right after it:…
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The Return of the MSP
The SaaS-pocalypse doesn’t kill the middleman. It funds a leaner, AI-run version of it. By The Chiri Team When your SaaS vendor’s price stops making sense, who do you actually call? For the last fifteen years the venture answer was: nobody, you just buy more SaaS. Recurring software revenue got the premium multiple, services got…
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The AI Food Chain
Sovereignty at a price only the Fortune 50 can pay, or convenience paid for with your alpha. Here’s how to tell which tier you’re actually buying into. By The Chiri Team If your AI vendor disappeared tomorrow, would you lose a tool, or would you lose the thing that makes your business different? Few executives…
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The Subsidy Cliff
Your token bill is subsidized today. What happens to the roadmap the day it isn’t. By The Chiri Team What happens to your AI roadmap the day your token bill stops being subsidized? That is not a rhetorical setup. It is a question with a specific, researched answer, and it is one few executives have…
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Cheap, Fast, and Ignored
Non-domestic models are near-frontier at three percent of the price. Adoption still lags, and it’s not about capability. By The Chiri Team If a model costs three percent of what you are paying today and gets you ninety-six percent of the capability, why would you still be paying full price? That is not a hypothetical.…
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The Human Rate Limit
Agents write code faster than any team can read it. Review, not generation, is now the constraint. By The Chiri Team Who on your team actually reads the code your AI agents write, and how much of it do they honestly understand? Ask that question honestly and the answer tends to get vague fast. Not…
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The Rented Land Problem
Bespoke software just got as cheap as renting it. That breaks the SaaS and services divide for good. By The Chiri Team Why does your team pay for a thousand-dollar-a-month software seat that one person actually uses? For a decade, the answer was simply that this is how enterprise software works. You buy the license,…
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The Unbadged Employee
Your people answer to HIPAA and SOC 2. Your agents, mostly, still don’t. By The Chiri Team Would your AI agents pass the same audit your employees pass every year? For a lot of companies right now, the honest answer is that nobody has checked, because nobody has framed the question that way yet. Compliance…
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