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Least Privilege Was Built for People Who Pause
Every access model you run assumes a human is standing at the moment of action. Agents void that assumption.
 • Andrew Lewis
Defining “Done” Is the Work the Loop Can’t Do
An agent that runs until it’s finished forces you to say what finished means before the work exists — and code gets away with it in a way a legal…
 • Andrew Lewis
Your Agent Has the Same Permissions You Do
The conversation about AI agents is all about what they can do. The question nobody can answer yet is what they did.
 • Andrew Lewis
The Entry Fee for McKinsey's 60 Percent Smaller Teams
The agentic delivery numbers are real. The preconditions underneath them are the part nobody will quote.
 • Andrew Lewis
You Cannot Review Your Way Out of This
Verification at AI scale is a selection problem, and every guardrail, eval, and playbook only works after a human decides what deserves attention.
 • Andrew Lewis

May 2026

April 2026

The rising tide doesn’t lift all boats
What McKinsey’s 2025 data actually says about AI value capture, why the playbook executives are following contradicts their own findings, and what to…
 • Andrew Lewis
The hidden second clause in the AI productivity story
A new study suggests the trade most of us think we’re making — skill for speed — often delivers neither.
 • Andrew Lewis
Your Brain Is a Judgment Machine Now
AI didn’t eliminate the hard part of knowledge work. It compressed it into every minute of the day.
 • Andrew Lewis
Your AI Adoption Number Is Lying to You
The metric everyone tracks, the one almost nobody does, and why the gap between them explains everything
 • Andrew Lewis
Two Conversations About AI, One Building
Executives and managers aren't disagreeing about AI. They're having entirely different discussions.
 • Andrew Lewis
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