About AI POV
Building an AI strategy very often looks like handing out hammers to people.
Few will do something really constructive, some will hit their fingers, some will use them to hold papers on their desk, and majority will smash.
That is what happens when you adopt a technology without a point of view on what it should do for you. And right now, most organisations adopting AI have no point of view — just a budget and a fear of being left behind.
Where these opinions come from
These are not academic positions. They come from building things with AI and helping organisations think about technology strategy.
A decade of strategy work. I've run wardleymaps.com since 2013 and spent years helping organisations map their competitive landscape before making technology decisions. The pattern is always the same: the organisations that adopt technology without understanding their position get locked in, overpay, or lose capabilities they didn't know they needed. AI is the latest and fastest-moving instance of this.
Building with AI daily. This site and everything on kda.zone runs on personal-presence-os — a content engine I built with AI as a co-pilot. I use AI tools every day to write, build, and ship. I know what augmentation looks like in practice — and I know where the tools fall short and where human judgement is non-negotiable.
Studying platform dependency. My Open Source Research project tracks what happens when organisations build on platforms they don't control. Open source went through the same cycle AI is entering now: free and abundant at first, then consolidation, then the economics change and the dependents discover what "free" actually cost them.
Who this is for
If you make decisions about how your organisation uses AI — whether you're a CTO, a team lead, or an executive — this project is a running argument for doing it with a point of view rather than following the crowd.
The themes
- AI as leverage, not replacement. The organisations that use AI to make people better will outperform the ones that use it to make people unnecessary.
- Dependency is the real risk. Not whether AI works, but what happens when the terms change and you have no alternatives.
- Strategy before adoption. Know what you're protecting, know what you're willing to lose, and build switching capability before you need it.
Who maintains this
This project is maintained by KDA — mapper, builder, writer. It draws on years of strategy consulting and a persistent interest in what happens when organisations optimise for convenience without thinking about resilience.