Howard Gray
Experience designer, teacher, writer, speaker.
⌘K
Subscribe Sign in
A.I.

Three Big A.I. Bets - keynote

A 25-minute talk on the three bets every services business is already making - whether they've named them or not. Talent, model, positioning. Recorded in Paris.
Three Big A.I. Bets - keynote

I gave a talk in Paris on AI acceleration. Not the "here's how to write better prompts" kind - the "where are you actually placing your chips" kind.

I shared three bets every services business is already making. Whether they've named them or not.

  1. Talent. Why your juniors might have better AI stacks for their side-gigs than you provide for your global clients.
  2. Model. Why the billable hour is becoming indefensible. Again.
  3. Positioning. Why the shift isn't about adoption - it's about orchestration. And why the CFO knows this before you do.

Link below if you want 25 minutes on AI's iPhone moment, poker chips, a Nokia 3310, and weird stuff in my fridge.

This talk was at mci group's business academy event. Mci builds experiences for a living - and it showed. Production, content and vibes were all top. I met so many cool people from around the planet.

P.S. My laptop was asleep when I walked on stage. Screen-saver, password prompt, 360 people waiting, mci's CEO in the front row - directly in my eye-line. Perhaps the gods were testing whether I believed my own material.

Member discussion

More like this

Claude reaches for the Skills

Claude reaches for the Skills

A small shift - seemingly

So... what happens next?

Don't ask the AI boosters. Or the doomers. Can someone else help me understand?

The Meta Post

What Claude Code saw after reviewing dozens of my blog posts. TL;DR: A lot.

My A.I stack - February, 2026

Tools come and go. Here's where I've landed on the AI stack - for now.

It’s not their fault

Most feedback feels useless. But that's not on them - it's on us to extract what they really mean.
There is no Goose

There is no Goose

There's a lot of Clay Davis energy in AI right now. People selling the golden goose. But real results come from the unglamorous work nobody wants to talk about.