by Joe Ro | Oct 6, 2026 | Strategic AI Implementations, Strategy
Most of what gets called “AI strategy” right now is closer to shopping than strategy. Someone saw a demo, bought a tool, told a team to “start using it,” and called that a plan. That is not strategic AI implementation. That is software procurement with better press....
by Joe Ro | Sep 23, 2026 | Anthropic, Claude
Anthropic quietly upgraded the two cheapest paid tiers of Claude Opus 5.5 – a frontier-level AI model and the newest member of Anthropic’s Claude products – was released this week, on September 22, 2026, and buried the news in the same release notes...
by Joe Ro | Sep 10, 2026 | Anthropic, Claude, SaaS, SalesForce
Customers of SalesForce should, at a minimum, take note and audit what might no longer be necessary. You should start the audit this week, before the beta opens — not because you need to cancel anything today, but because you won’t have time to do the...
by Joe Ro | Sep 6, 2026 | Claude, eCommerce
Anthropic open-sourced a full blueprint for AI shopping and merchant agents on September 2, 2026 — free, Apache 2.0, built to run against your own catalog. One day earlier, the cost of running a Claude-based agent dropped by as much as 75% on the caching side. Both...
by Joe Ro | Sep 6, 2026 | Anthropic, Claude
Key Takeaways Anthropic cut cache-read pricing 75 percent on September 1, 2026 — good news for efficient usage, easy to overlook otherwise. A cache miss on the newest models now costs 40 times what a cache hit costs, versus 10 times on every other Claude model. Claude...
by Joe Ro | Aug 30, 2026 | lab
by Joe Ro | May 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
“SEO is dead.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one. After all, it’s the industry’s favorite boy-who-cried-wolf headline. For over 25 years, I’ve watched web developers, marketers, and agency owners panic over every algorithm update, layout change, and...
by Joe Ro | Apr 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
BCBS Settlement Payout Estimator April 26, 2026 Probabilistic payout projection tool based on the $1.9B net settlement fund, default KFF allocation matrices, and projected aggregate denominators. In other words, math stuff. Check our accuracy at the tab right below,...
by Joe Ro | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
← All Insights AI Strategy March 24, 2026 8 min read Google Just Changed How 2 Billion People Find Local Businesses On March 12, 2026, Google launched Ask Maps — Gemini AI now decides which businesses get recommended. If your Google Business Profile is...
