Enterprise ai. Built In Public since 2016.
BairesDev Principal. AI with Alec Founder.
The person CEOs and senior executives ask the AI questions they aren't comfortable asking their own direct reports.
forward deployed. building for real. Always Publishing.
2016
15,000+
15,000+
Building in Public Since
15,000+
15,000+
15,000+
Senior Executives + Technical Leaders
Financial Services + Tech, Media and Telecom
Financial Services + Tech, Media and Telecom
Financial Services + Tech, Media and Telecom
Primary Verticals
Principal
Financial Services + Tech, Media and Telecom
Financial Services + Tech, Media and Telecom
Forward Deployed, BairesDev
American Express
American Express
American Express
BNY
American Express
American Express
Capital One
American Express
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan
Goldman Sachs
Live Nation
Live Nation
Goldman Sachs
Live Nation
Lazard
Lazard
Lazard
NFL
Lazard
Lazard
Recent appearances
ABC News
Dig South Tech Summit
AI: Voice or Victim?
ABC News interview about AI and its implications for education and classroom learning.
AI: Voice or Victim?
Dig South Tech Summit
AI: Voice or Victim?
Telly Award winning interview with Greg Boone, co-Producer of AI: Voice or Victim? podcast.
Dig South Tech Summit
Dig South Tech Summit
Talk focused on building an AI company for Professional + Collegiate Sports organizations in the Generative AI era of business.
Outthinker
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
Enterprise AI 7-7-7 talk for Global think tank for Chief Strategy Officers of $1B+ revenue companies.
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
Talk focused on why 2 person AI native teams are outshipping their competition.
SmarterMarkets
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
Raleigh-Durham Startup Week 2026
SmarterMarkets interview about the challenges on the journey to integrating AI and AI agents, meaningfully, into your business.
Forward Deployed.
Hands In The Dirt.
As a Forward Deployed Principal at BairesDev, Alec works embedded inside enterprise environments. Originating, building and growing AI implementation engagements for Financial Services and TMT clients.
The work is not advisory. It is architectural: knowledge graphs, AI agents, agentic workflows, intelligent systems.
Alec speaks the CTO's language, the CEO's language and the CFO's language. Getting all three aligned on the right AI investment is the work that actually moves organizations forward.
Ten Years. 300,000+ Original Words Published.
68 Newsletters. 400+ Micro Essays. 31 Podcast Episodes.
Ten Years. 300,000+ Original Words Published.
Dated. Archived. Searchable.
68 Newsletters. 400+ Micro Essays. 31 Podcast Episodes.
Ten Years. 300,000+ Original Words Published.
68 Newsletters. 400+ Micro Essays. 31 Podcast Episodes.
68 Newsletters. 400+ Micro Essays. 31 Podcast Episodes.
68 Newsletters. 400+ Micro Essays. 31 Podcast Episodes.
Humans + Machines. Never Humans vs. Machines.
Where Do you start? Read this.
Enterprise AI Primer: Mental Model + Answers to 15 Questions
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Most recent 24 of 68 Newsletters.
AIWA "The One Thing" #29: Jensen's First Tweet Ever. Satya, Sundar, Zuck, Elon + Altman Answered In Hours. Open + Closed. 07.26.26 AIWA "The One Thing" #28: Same Intelligence. 20x the Price. Sharp CFOs + CTOs Aren't Cutting Jobs, They're Funding Them. Especially Entry-Level. 07.19.26.AIWA "The One Thing" #27: Uber's COO Named the AI Gap. Its CTO Closed it in 60 Days. Forward Deployed FTW. 07.12.26AIWA "The One Thing" #26: Palantir CEO Alex Karp Said the Enterprise AI Quiet Part Out Loud on CNBC. Here's What It Means. 07.05.26.AIWA "The One Thing" #25: Karpathy Named the 3rd AI Paradigm. Your AI Employee Just Showed Up For Work. They're Ready to Go. Are You? 06.28.26AIWA "The One Thing" #24: Chamath Called It. Satya Nadella and Lin Qiao Confirmed It. The AI Coca-Cola is the Learning Loop. 06.21.26AIWA "The One Thing" #23: Enterprise AI Has a J-Curve. The Hangover Proves It. Your CFO Is The Variable. 06.14.26AIWA "The One Thing" #22: Individual Feel. Enterprise Intuition. Dominate. 06.07.26AIWA "The One Thing" #21: Buy vs Build is the Wrong Question. Kirkland & Ellis is Spending $500M on a Better One. 05.31.26AIWA "The One Thing" #20: The Model Is Ready. The Layer Beneath Isn't. The Human OS Is The Moat. 05.25.26AIWA "The One Thing" #19: Anthropic. OpenAI. Google. Forward Deployed. Fully Funded. 05.17.26AIWA "The One Thing" #18: Could Tacnode be the Next Databbricks? 05.11.26AIWA "The One Thing" #17: Stop Asking "What Is Our AI Strategy?" Start Asking What Ray Dalio Did In 2016. 05.03.26AIWA "The One Thing" #16: The Unit of Production Just Changed. Automate. Augment. Rewire. (From My RDSW Talk) 04.26.26AIWA "The One Thing" #15: Benioff Just Put Salesforce in the Orchestration Layer. The Context Graph is Next. 04.19.26AIWA "The One Thing" #14: Pioneering CEOs Have A Name For The AI Wall. The Org Chart. 04.12.26AIWA "The One Thing" #13: Behind the TBPN Acquisition. What OpenAI Really Bought. The Internet Is Being Rebuilt. Not For you. 04.05.26AIWA "The One Thing" #12: Software Isn't Dead. It's Reinventing. Meet Air. 03.29.26AIWA "The One Thing" #11: The IT Department the Best Companies Are Already Building. 03.22.26AIWA "The One Thing" #10: One Founder. One AI Stack. $1.5M ARR. Every Founder + Enterprise Should Be Paying Attention. 03.15.26AIWA "The One Thing" #09: The Gap is the Game. 03.08.26AIWA "The One Thing" #08: The One Word Missing From Jack Dorsey's Letter About Block's Layoffs. 03.01.26AIWA "The One Thing" #07: AI Agents Are Real. They Aren't Evenly Distributed. 50% Live In One Domain. 02.22.26AIWA "The One Thing" #06: 82 Million Views On 'Something Big Is Happening.' AI Builds Itself. Humans Move Up The Stack. 02.15.26
Podcast
Most Recent 24 of 31 Podcasts
#31: Are Your AI Agents Reasoning From a Snapshot That Never Existed? | Tacnode Founder + CEO 05.10.26#30: "We Don't Do Tokenized Assets" Is the New "We Don't Do the Internet" | Jason Dobbs 04.17.26#29: The AI Questions CEOs Are Running Out of Time to Ask | Henrik Werdelin 04.09.26#28: 75% of Your Creative Team's Week Is Wasted. Shane Hegde Built A Salesforce For Creatives To Fix It | Shane Hegde 03.27.26#27: Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera 03.15.26#26: Greg Boone, Walk West - AI Isn't an Intern, It's an Everything Machine. 02.04.26#25: 2 Weeks to 2 Days - How Calm's UX Team Tests 10X More Concepts with AI Prototyping | Chase Clark, Calm. 12.19.25#24: Good Pirates Ship Fast - L'Oreal's AI-First in 90 Days (May '24), Accelerating Since | Thomas Menard, L'Oreal. 12.09.25#23: Banks Have 2-3 Years Before AI Leaders Pull Away, Forever | Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Evident. 11.26.25#22: 'If You Can't Imagine It, You Can't Make It' - Science Projects to AI Transformation | Bret Greenstein, West Monroe. 10.10.25#21: $1M+ Sports Decisions on Ancient Tech vs. AI That Speaks the ‘Language of Movement’ | Ryan Talbot, VueMotion. 09.16.25#20: This 'Refined Graffiti Artist' Loves AI and Paints Where Sports, Culture + Fashion Collide | Kyle Wallack (KW). 09.09.25#19: Enterprise AI Agents - Is This The AWS Moment For Digital Labor? | Kurt Muehmel, Dataiku. 08.26.25#18: Did Apple Just Prove AI Isn't Actually Thinking? According To Their Research... 07.03.25 #17: Your Team Toggles 1,200x Daily Between Enterprise Apps: HERE's AI Browser Ends This Madness. 06.30.25#16: Creating "Carbon Copies" Of Employees In Regulated Industries: Athena Intelligence CEO Brendon Geils. 05.09.25#15: Beyond Moneyball - The Trillion-Dollar Sports Data Secret | Josh Walker CEO Of Sports Innovation Lab. 04.24.25#14: Space-Based Data Centers - How Starcloud Is Solving AI's Energy Crisis | CEO Philip Johnston. 04.16.25#13: When AI Meets Therapy - Brandon Chaney On Bootstrapping Moments To Solve Real Painpoints. 04.03.25#12: Enterprise AI Playbook? There Isn't One - How Wendy's AI Leader Will Croushorn Drives Innovation. 04.01.25#11: Igor Jablokov - There's Only One "Igor" In AI. This Is Him. An AI OG. IYKYK. 02.07.25#10: Wendy's AI Leader Will Croushorn - Enterprise AI At Scale. 12.23.24#9: Josh Mohrer Of Wave - Inspiring + Bootstrapping Solopreneur (Unicorn?). 12.05.24#8: Kurt Muehmel, Dataiku Head Of AI Strategy: Enterprises Building AI Systems. 11.25.24
Micro essays
Curated from 400+ Micro Essays.
#24: Triangle Startup Collective - AI-First Startups, High-Performance Teams + Real Execution Tactics. 07.13.26#23: Saanya Ojha's LinkedIn Feed Is Pure Signal. 08.17.25#22: AI-First Company? Ontology Aware Intelligent System FTW. 05.17.25#21: Tobi Lutke: Company Memo - Before Headcount, Try AI. 04.07.25#20: Sridhar Ramaswamy: Snowflake Is The "Most Consequential Data + AI Company On The Planet." 02.27.25#19: Data Complexity Is A Tax On Everything A Business Does. 02.16.25#18: $1 Bet Your CEO Will Ask "What Is Our Semantic Layer Strategy?" 01.06.25#17: Satya Nadella: AI Collapsing Traditional Business Applications. 12.15.24#16: Lenny Rachitsky Interview of Seth Godin: Taste + Knowing Before Others. 12.08.24#15: Ben Affleck On AI, Craft, Taste And Knowing When To Stop. 11.22.24#14: BCG: Enterprise AI's Advantages, 70-20-10 + Building Moat Features. 11.13.24#13: Marc Benioff: Enterprise AI Filling The Unimaginable. 10.28.24#12: Gartner: Co-Ownership Is How Vanguard CIOs Unlock AI Innovation. 10.25.24#11: Ethan Mollick: The AI-Native Leadership Imperative. 10.10.24#10: Charles Lamanna + Microsoft Intelligent Applications Division's AI Vision. 09.15.24#09: Salesforce Is All In On AI Agents. 09.08.24#08: Cursor Enables 8-Year Old To Build Functioning Chat Bot. 08.26.24#07: L'Oreal's Enterprise AI Idea To Impact In 90-Days Using LangChain. 08.22.24#06: AI Pilots vs Deployment Via Bain, Accenture + Benedict Evans. 07.15.24#05: Andrej Karpathy: The New Computing Stack. 11.24.23#04: Chamath Palihapitiya: Think Of LLMs As Refrigeration, Invent Coca-Cola. 07.20.23#03: Goldman Sachs' Optimistic AI Enabled Case Of 7% GDP Growth. 04.04.23#02: Parallels Between 2018 Adobe Summit + Jamie Dimon's 2018 Annual Letter. 04.13.18#01: Re: AI, Mark Cuban Was Absolutely Right About Importance Of Thinking Critically + Creatively. 11.22.17
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