Chapter 5: The AAA Licence

Position is not permission. Chapter 5 explores how organisations earn the authority to Assist, Augment and Adapt through capability, governance and evidence.

Harness before model

The model debate misses a more useful question: where should intelligence sit in the work, and who keeps the judgement?

Co-Intelligence: The Future of Intelligence Is Collective

In the series Jason Tabarias from CPI and I are writing about what are the ways we can thinking about AI for society in the Australian context, here is the third installment. For much of the public conversation, artificial intelligence has been framed as a contest. Humans versus machines. Workers

Universal Basic Intelligence (UBIQ): Why AI Should Be Like Your Local Public School

Over the last few years, my work has increasingly sat at the intersection of strategy, design, and artificial intelligence. Through The Helix Moment, my work at The Helix Lab, and now my writing on The Co-Intelligent Organisation, I've been exploring a common set of questions: How do

I had to install a shoe rack over the weekend. Grok helped.

We have all done those jobs – IKEA fitouts, the hard ones from China, the unreadable instructions. You get it wrong, pull the screws out and somehow start again. This weekend I was installing a shoe rack and I had the idea to use Grok to help me out. I have

Reflections on the Canada trip.

Alex Ryan is a dear friend, one of the deepest thinkers I know around systems challenges and how to work thorough them and someone who is a collaborator and partner for Helix Lab. Alex set up a lot of the meetings and connections that enabled me to have such rich

Why Kimi K3 matters

Kimi K3 launched a few days back and it's taken X and key people in the AI community quite surprised and shaken. Kimi is the open-weights model from Moonshots AI from China. Kimi has always been a different model. It's smart, dense – in my experience

What is Work and why we need thinking agents?

The more I work with organisations and build agents the more I see the idea of agents automating tasks as totally wrong. There are so many complications when looking at workflows. For example, in procurement, you need to scope the project, you need to understand what's in the

Chapter 4 : Strategic Shapes

Organisations Are Not Points Now that you have the 9Q Grid, you might be tempted to ask: "Where is my organisation?" You might point to Q5 and say, "We are here." Or Q2 and say, "We are here." But that's wrong. Organisations

The Tale of Two Teenagers: Finding and Nurturing Talent in the Age of AI

Last week, two extraordinary moments in sports caught my attention and sparked some deep thinking about talent, potential, and what it means to build capability in our organisations. First, there was Kimi Antonelli, a 19-year-old prodigy who Mercedes has been developing since his karting days. He's

The 9Q Grid -- Strategy Canvas for the Co-Intelligent Organisation

As we enter the co-intelligent era, understanding where humans plan a role and where does machine intelligence play a role is critical. Over the years we have had many tools and frameworks to help us. In strategy we have the BCG matrix, Five Forces from Porter and recently the

The Co-Intelligent Vision

Not Humans OR AI. Humans WITH AI. In early days of automobiles, we called them "horseless carriages." The name revealed our thinking. We understood new technology only in terms of what it replaced. A carriage—without a horse. The frame of reference was old world. It took decades

How AI is making me use paper more?

For a long time, my biggest challenge was how do I do something? How do I create something? How do I take this idea and make it happen? In the last six to eight months, that's totally changed. I want to explore design. I use Cloud Design Map

01_The F1 Revolution : The Co-Intelligent Org

Continuing the series for the book The Co-Intelligent Organisation. The One-Second War Lap 49 of the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. Lando Norris is four laps away from his first-ever Formula 1 victory, his McLaren dancing on the edge of adhesion as he holds off the seven-time

Preface: The Co-Intelligent Org

Today I launch the co-intelligent organisation book. It will be written in public, learning and looping and sensing as I go. Preface: These are the questions guiding me. They came after I wrote The Helix Moment, which was about strategy, design, and AI. I had spent twenty years in

Helix Signals

Trust

Trust. The single biggest challenge for enterprise Agent adoption. In my new book launching next week as a serial, The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a key aspect of the second part of the book, The License is the ability for organisations to build the capability and maturity to adopt and launch

The next software category: co-intelligent tools

If markdown is the co-intelligent document format, what is a co-intelligent tool? Salesforce, one of the companies that helped create the SaaS era, is now showing us what comes next. For the past two decades, SaaS software was built for humans. We were the users. We clicked the

Co-Intelligent Org

The Co-Intelligent Organisation

Exponential growth of AI is creating a new kind of challenge. How will humans and organisations actually move forward?

Why you should start using Claude Code.

The biggest change in 2025 for coders was -- launch of claude code and Opus 4.5 which brought a real agentic approach. If we have to become a co-intelligent leader the first step is to become fluent in AI. And not just a chat but a real agentic approach.

The Orchestrator - the leadership skill of the AI Age

Steve Yegge launched GasTown on Jan 1 2026. Gas Town is basically how you can use claude code to create a team (mayor, polecat, crew, beads etc) to manage more claude codes and create more work. The whole idea is the idea of "orchestration" and beads as the

Innovation Architecture: The Infrastructure Nobody Built

Every industry has physical infrastructure. Roads, power grids, internet cables. Without them, everything slows down or stops. What's less visible is the infrastructure that determines how freely people can experiment. The systems — or absence of systems — that decide whether someone can try a bold idea, fail safely, and

Markdown is the standard for co-intelligent file collaboration.

We are going to live in a human-agent co-intelligent future. If that is the case, what is the file that works for both? Word was for text. Excel for numbers. PPT for presentations. Markdown for agents and humans. John Gruber created markdown as a simple way to make

Why AI Won't Replace Everything (And Why That's Good News)

A Stanford economist just proved what we've been saying all along. Not with opinions. With math. Charles I. Jones, one of the world's leading growth economists, published a paper this month that should be required reading for every executive drowning in AI hype. The title: "

When Algorithms Ossify: The Health Star Rating Trap and how we can solve it.

How Australia's food labelling system got frozen in 2014 — and why Rules as Code could fix it The Cornflakes Box You're standing in your kitchen at 7am, half-awake, pouring cornflakes into a bowl. On the front of the box: 4.0 stars. Four and a