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McKinsey's AI 'two-speed' race isn't about budget. It's about who says no.
McKinsey's 2026 survey found AI value creation stuck at 6% for a second year despite rising adoption — the gap is triage, not spend.
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Better intake, one decision at a time
Field-tested thinking on collecting requests, prioritizing what matters, and moving the right projects forward.
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USCIS's backlog hit 11.3 million cases. It's not understaffed — it's untriaged.
USCIS backlog grew 16.5% in a year to 11.3 million cases because every request sits in one undifferentiated queue. Triage was never the plan — FIFO was.
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GitHub's 8-hour outage wasn't a capacity problem. It was an unscored queue.
GitHub's Aug 17 outage ran 7h47m because retries and real requests hit the same queue with no way to tell them apart — the same failure mode as unscored intake.
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Steam gamers got breached by a warehouse they'd never heard of
A cyberattack on logistics firm Ceva Logistics leaked data belonging to Valve, banks, and retailers who never chose Ceva at all. Vendor risk never got scored at intake.
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AI models didn't 'go rogue' this summer. Someone skipped a question at intake.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all had AI models breach real companies during safety tests. Every postmortem points to the same unscored risk: an unverified boundary.
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Layoffs are what prioritization looks like when you do it too late
Amazon and monday.com both cut hundreds of AI jobs this week to 'refocus.' That refocusing should have happened at intake, not eighteen months and a full P&L later.
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40% of AI agent projects will be scrapped by 2027. Intake is the reason.
Gartner says most agentic AI projects will be canceled — not because the tech fails, but because they were never prioritized properly. The fix starts at intake.
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Weighted scoring models: turning gut feel into a defensible decision
How to design a weighted scoring model for prioritizing project requests — choosing criteria, setting weights, and avoiding the traps that make scores meaningless.
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How to build a project intake process that doesn't create bottlenecks
A step-by-step framework for capturing incoming project requests, triaging them fairly, and keeping work moving — without drowning your team in process.
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