Efficiency Always Wins
Why true economic strength comes from lowering cost per unit. Ford, McDonald’s, and today’s AI efficiency race. Flow creates scale and resilience.
Why true economic strength comes from lowering cost per unit. Ford, McDonald’s, and today’s AI efficiency race. Flow creates scale and resilience.
AI is shifting from an internal tool to a sellable agency product. The winners will embed it into repeatable workflows, amplify their creative signature, and turn efficiency into differentiation clients can buy.
CIOs can’t equate local hosting with ownership. Many “community” AI licenses restrict commercial use, transferability, or fork rights. True control requires OSI-approved licenses (with SPDX IDs) so AI can be transferred, audited, and treated as an asset.
Open source is back. But “open” AI often isn’t. Llama-like and “open-source-plus” licenses keep code visible while limiting real freedoms. Copyleft (GPL) regains relevance as a clear, non-discriminatory counterweight to open-washing.
Hourly billing is dying. Clients want instant answers and outcome pricing is becoming the norm. Build one micro-agent, add a human review layer, track time-to-insight, and sell decision power-as-a-service instead of hours.