My banned book, 100x, is officially back on Amazon!

What happened? an algorithm blocked the book, flagging it for too many reviews, too fast. The catch was, the only way to fix it was to admit to fake reviews... which we never had. It took 4 months and 2 law firms to solve, but we did it.

I tried to play it cool when I heard the news. You can judge for yourself:

This book is the result of 3 years of deep research and interviews with over 100 enterprise leaders. It’s a framework for getting real, measurable results with AI.

For everyone who’s been asking, I’m thrilled to announce the print and Kindle versions are back and ready to ship (audiobook is on the way!).

To thank you for your patience, the Kindle version is available at a max discount for a limited time.

In today's lineup: 

Robots

• How to bridge the AI ROI gap

• Real ROI from Gen AI

• Choosing your AI meeting intelligence tool

People

• Ines Montani's playbook for a post-hype AI advantage

Love

• Unlocking a 20% gain in logistics efficiency

• Transformative Reads: High Output Management

Reading time: 3 min. 

Top Insights

• AI infrastructure is the new competitive moat

• OpenAI's IPO builds a war chest for the AI race

• The AI supply chain is expanding beyond chips to industrials and power

• Amazon is reframing the AI and jobs narrative from the top

• The global buildout of 'sovereign AI' is accelerating

How to bridge the AI ROI gap

Companies are betting billions on AI but flying blind on the results.

While 70 percent of companies now have a formal AI strategy, a new study reveals a dangerous disconnect: 46 percent have no framework to measure the return on their AI investments.

This gap is unsustainable as the AI market explodes to a projected $150 billion by 2030. As hype fades and disciplined execution becomes critical, leaders are playing a game without a scoreboard. The winners will be those who can prove value.

The AI playbook beyond the 46 percent

• Mandate Measurement: Tie every AI initiative to a clear business KPI. Shift from speculative bets to strategic investments.

• Build a Scalable Foundation: Move beyond scattered pilots. Prioritize foundational enablers like data architecture and governance to build a durable advantage.

• Build a Data-Fluent Culture: The top barrier to AI success is people, not technology. Upskill your team to connect AI outputs to business value.

My book, 100x, offers a deeper framework for implementing these principles and turning your AI investments into a measurable, competitive advantage.

Real ROI from Gen AI

• Mercado Libre empowers its 17,000 developers with an internal AI platform, enabling them to build and deploy new solutions faster and at a massive scale.

• OpenAI automates its internal support using an AI-powered agent in Gmail, handling hundreds of thousands of tasks monthly and freeing employees from repetitive work.

• Indeed uses an AI engine to personalize job matching, boosting job applications by 20% and increasing the number of candidates hired for those roles by 13%.

Together with Profit Snack

Stop wasting resources. Start driving ROI.

Your competitors gain their advantage by working smarter, not just harder, by embedding AI into their core operations.

While many leaders get stuck in costly pilot programs or waste budget on unused tools, market leaders leverage proven AI strategies to boost productivity and cut costs. The Passive Profits Playbook reveals their exact methods for streamlining workflows, automating marketing, and scaling content. These strategies require no complex setups or technical jargon.

Forget the hype. This guide delivers practical, high-impact implementation, complete with templates and step-by-step instructions you can hand directly to your teams.

Get the executive playbook.

Tool Spotlight

Your weekly briefing on tools that create competitive leverage

Choosing your AI meeting intelligence tool

Gong

Best for: Revenue teams analyzing customer calls to improve sales coaching, forecasting, and strategy. Choose if you:

• Want to create data-driven sales coaching programs.

• Need to accurately forecast sales and identify at-risk deals.

• Want to capture market intelligence from customer conversations.

Fireflies

Best for: Teams needing to boost productivity and collaboration by automating meeting notes and action items. Choose if you:

• Need to automatically capture and assign action items.

• Want a searchable library of all company conversations.

• Want to reduce manual note-taking and improve meeting efficiency.

3 more meeting intelligence platforms to explore

• Fathom: A popular free alternative for real-time transcription and summaries.

• Otter: A market leader in accurate, automated transcription for any conversation.

• Clari: An enterprise revenue platform with built-in conversation intelligence for forecasting.

Transformation Champion

Ines Montani's playbook for a post-hype AI advantage

While the industry chases massive, general-purpose AI, Explosion CEO Ines Montani argues the real competitive advantage lies in a more pragmatic approach: using large models as a development tool to create smaller, faster, and more reliable specialized systems. Her work provides a crucial mental model for leaders to sidestep the hype, empowering their teams to build practical, production-ready AI that is transparent, affordable, and directly controlled by the organization.

As Montani puts it, "Generative AI is a good way to get computers to talk to humans, but not a good way to get computers to talk to other computers".

Unlocking a 20% gain in logistics efficiency

When global scale creates friction in the field, you need more than a new tool. You need a new framework. For solar leader Nextracker, we built a single platform to master their complex supply chain, delivering a 20% efficiency gain straight to the bottom line and saving 6,000 man-hours.

As their VP of Digital Transformation, Steve Berriatua, said, we "collaborated to accelerate tools into the hands of our staff and clients."

This is how we ship digital transformation 2x faster. See the proof here.

Transformative Reads

One book, handpicked from my conversations with friends, industry leaders, and tech innovators:

High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove applies manufacturing principles to management, arguing that a manager's success is measured solely by their team's output. This operational playbook provides a systematic framework for increasing team productivity through high-leverage activities and a focus on measurable results.

Perfect for: Results-driven leaders and managers seeking a practical system for building high-performing teams and achieving operational excellence.

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