Category: Strategy
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The Consultant-Grade AI Interaction Model: Professional Leverage. The 6-Layer Interaction Stack Layer 1 – Intent (Why This Exists) Bad prompts ask what. Consultant prompts declare purpose, scope, and consequence. Consultant framing Example “I need to determine whether this programme is salvageable before committing political capital.” Layer 2 – Authority (Who Is Speaking) When authority and…
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Using ChatGPT as an applied cognitive enhancement system. I’ve been using ChatGPT for a while now, in fairly conventional ways. Very practical work: coding assistance, documentation scaffolding, and design exploration — not just abstract ideation or “testing ideas out”. All useful. All incremental. All fundamentally transactional. Recently, I had a genuine light-bulb moment — because…
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This morning I caught myself typing: “Good morning, Chat.” Then I stopped. Who exactly am I greeting? I felt like Catweazle saying hello to his own reflection in the lake. There’s no awareness on the other side. No inner life. No “self.” And yet, the exchange feels relational. We talk to our cars. So of…
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Your side hustle is becoming sentient. At GhostGen.AI we’ve been quietly testing agentic workflows—semi-passive systems that learn to operate on their own. We now have a blueprint for using AI agents to create a semi-passive business, built on a WordPress + WooCommerce framework. Early results? Promising. Slightly eerie. Addictively efficient. Haiku like. The late-night experiments…
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According emperic evidence a lot of AI implementations aren’t going well. Not in a spectacular way — but in a slow, quiet way. Here’s what the “quiet way” looks like: McKinsey reports that only 1% of GenAI initiatives are mature. Deloitte sees board-level interest dropping — even as budgets rise. The result? AI theatre. Fancy…
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Agency Mode refers to a system design or architecture where an AI (or automation system) operates as an independent agent — proactively taking actions on behalf of a user or organization, often across systems and workflows. It contrasts with reactive “assistant mode” AI, which only responds to prompts. Here’s a practical example: 📘 Case Study:…
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Naive prompt example “Based on this project overview, identify warning signs and potential risks for the following described project: A US-based Private Equity firm has acquired two businesses (company A and company S). The objective is to merge these entities, harmonize their operations, and subsequently prepare them for resale in the next few years. The…
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This LinkedIn article is based on Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index report, “The Year the Frontier Firm Is Born.” It supports and communicates the report’s core ideas—without copying it—while adding a scientific tone, clear structure, counterpoints, citations, and a forward-looking call to action and offers how GhostGen.AI can support this. Executive Summary 2025 marks a…
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AI Courses: The Bandwagon Bullsh*t vs Courses That Actually Teach You Something By Richard Flores-Moore FCCA Strategic Transformation Lead | AI Realist | GhostGen.AI founder | Author of The Emperor’s New Clothes: An AI Strategy? “Not everything that glitters is generative gold.” We’re living through the age of the AI course gold rush. Some are…
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1. A Moment of Strategic Reckoning An emperor pays a fortune for a set of clothes only a fool cannot see. He parades proudly through the city—until a child shouts, “He’s in the nude!” Today, as organisations rush to adopt artificial intelligence, we risk replaying this tale. Groupthink can lure businesses into applying AI without…