Hello — and why I'm writing again
A practitioner's first note on this blog — what I'll write about, who it's for, and why I think AI transformation is still mostly an operating-model problem, not a tool problem.
I'm Rod Navarro. This blog is where I think out loud about installing AI inside organizations — what's shipping, what's stuck, and what the next ninety days of an AI rollout actually look like from inside the build rather than from a podium.
Who this is for
This is for operating leaders who already know AI matters and are tired of slide decks. If you run a team somewhere between "we use ChatGPT individually" and "we have an AI strategy nobody owns," the posts here will be useful. I write for the person who will personally read the change-management Slack thread on Monday morning.
What I'll write about
Three lanes. AI operating models — what cadence, ownership, and metrics make AI actually take root inside an organization. Engineering pragmatics — the architecture and tooling that lets AI features survive contact with real users. Field reports — anonymized lessons from real AI transformation work, with names and identifying details removed.
A note on what you won't find
No predictions about AGI, no breathless model rankings, no "10 prompts that will change your business." The posts here will read like notes from a practitioner because that's what they are. Subscribe via RSS if you want them as they ship.