Entrepreneur's Edge

Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design

An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process accountability.

Jun 15 • Ryan Waliany

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May 2026

Managing AI is Managing Entropy

Every system drifts toward disorder without maintenance. AI specifications are no exception.

May 19 • Ryan Waliany

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Design the Road for the Car

AI's brittleness is an environment problem, not a model problem.

May 12 • Ryan Waliany

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Introducing SPEAR: The Management Framework for AI

The strong-start-weak-finish problem in AI is a process problem, not a model problem.

May 5 • Ryan Waliany

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April 2026

The Tools That Scale My Team Now Scale My Agents

Agents need a culture too. AgentsMD is where it lives.

Apr 28 • Ryan Waliany

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Software Has a CAC Now

The factory made software a line item with a marginal cost.

Apr 21 • Ryan Waliany

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The SMILE Curve Has Come for Software

Why software value is migrating to the edges, just like hardware did decades ago

Apr 14 • Ryan Waliany

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April 2023

Operating Leverage in the Age of Efficiency

Demystifying the mantra “do more with less” and its significance.

Apr 2, 2023 • Ryan Waliany

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March 2023

Beliefs need to be recalibrated over time

The significant role that our beliefs play in our outcomes.

Mar 12, 2023 • Ryan Waliany

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Recommended Books

A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.

Mar 2, 2023 • Ryan Waliany

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February 2023

OKRs will never be enough

Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.

Feb 26, 2023 • Ryan Waliany

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Revenue is easy, profit is harder

The fundamentals needed to run a business in the next economic cycle.

Feb 18, 2023 • Ryan Waliany

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