Conversations
Interviews, appearances and pieces published elsewhere. Newest first.
Reimagination of a consulting firm with agentic AI
The River Group's agentic Chief of Staff describes, in its own words, the system it runs the firm on.
Surviving the agentic AI surge, on Politely Pushy
TD Bank took a mortgage decision from fifteen hours to three minutes. JPMorgan cut five days to under a minute and moved 300 people to other work.
Reading the River: a series from AI Realized
Four parts adapted from the book: why agentic AI makes corporate strategy something you revise continuously, and what changes when the work itself changes.
Why agentic AI programs stall
There is no such thing as an AI strategy. There is a business outcome you own, and programs stall for strategic reasons rather than technology ones.
Retrofit or reimagine, on Marketing Spark
The technology is not the constraint. Imagination is. A retrofit can halve a process, and every competitor can run the same retrofit.
Reading the Water: a live working session
Reimagining the work is not a headcount exercise. Ford rehired 350 experienced engineers after finding AI could not absorb what they knew.
Unboxing The River Doesn't Wait
The first printed copies of the book, out of the box and on camera.
In conversation with Erick Mott, Creatorbase
Who the book is for, and why strategy in the agentic era is change management running at a velocity nobody has had to manage before.
Blaine introduces The River Doesn't Wait
A short walk through the book's core argument and the frameworks under it.
Announcing The River Doesn't Wait
Why the book exists, and the claim at the center of it: this is a book about corporate strategy, with agentic AI as the force making it urgent.