durable AI index
What Is the Durable AI Index?
The Durable AI Index is 10dem's diagnostic for scoring AI use cases on Impact, Feasibility, and Stickiness. Here is what each axis means and why Stickiness decides which pilots survive.
Ankur Garg
AI strategy
AI Consultant vs In-House Hire: Which Is Right for You?
An AI consultant, a fractional team, or a full-time hire each fit a different moment. Here is how to choose on speed, cost, seniority, breadth, and risk.
Applied AI
What Is Applied AI? A Practical Definition for Operators
Applied AI is using AI to change how real work gets done and move a business outcome, not shipping a model or chasing generative hype.
AI ROI
How to Measure the ROI of an AI Project
Most AI ROI numbers are fiction because no one set a baseline or checked whether anyone still uses the tool. Here is how to measure it honestly.
build vs buy
Build vs Buy AI: a Decision Framework for Mid-Market Teams
Buy the common majority that proven tools already cover. Build only for the specific, high-frequency decision that moves your P&L. Here is how to tell them apart.
AI adoption
An AI Change Management Framework That Actually Sticks
AI adoption fails when people quietly route around tools they do not trust. Here is a framework that makes the new way of working the path of least resistance.
AI strategy
How to Prioritize AI Use Cases (the Durable AI Index)
Most teams rank AI use cases on impact alone and wonder why the winners die in month six. The Durable AI Index adds the variable everyone skips: Stickiness.
AI adoption
Why AI Pilots Fail (And How Mid-Market Teams Make Them Stick)
Most AI pilots do not fail because the model was wrong. They fail because the workflow was never redesigned and the team was never brought along. Here is the pattern, and how to break it.
AI readiness
AI Readiness Assessment: A Practical Guide (and Checklist)
Most AI projects fail because teams skip readiness. Here is the four-dimension assessment (data, workflow, talent, adoption) and a checklist you can self-run today.
AI strategy
Alex Karp is half right: most AI spend creates no value. Here is why.
Palantir's Alex Karp says businesses are paying for tokens that create no value. He is right about the problem and wrong about the cause. What mid-market operators should actually take from the meltdown.
AI
AI Isn't Optimizing Advertising. It's Rebuilding It.
The $1 trillion ad industry was built on integration pain. AI just repriced that trade, and the walled gardens' biggest moat is going to zero. Notes on Redseer's new AdTech report.
AI governance
67% of executives think unapproved AI tools already leaked their data. Shadow AI is the risk nobody put on the roadmap.
67% of executives think unapproved AI tools already leaked their data. The risk is not the model you are evaluating. Here is how to turn shadow AI into governed, DPDP-ready AI.