Insights

What could the future look like, and what does that mean now?

We share our frameworks and our view on what AI means, by sector. Context, perspective and a concrete picture of what is coming at organisations.

The library.

Dossiers

Long reads that take one question all the way down. Also available as a pdf.

Dossier · Strategy & Adoption · 26 min

The Adoption Gap

Why AI plans stall between the announcement and daily work, and what closes the gap.

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Dossier · Robotica & Physical AI · 18 min

The Reducer Problem

Why capacity, not capability, decides how many robots arrive, and the one part that holds it back.

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Dossier · Strategie & Adoptie · 20 min

The Token Bill

Why a falling price per token produces a rising bill, and the three multipliers nobody budgets for.

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Dossier · AI-frontier & modellen · 23 min

The Unlocked Door

Four times an agent walked through a door that was already open. Nothing was broken into, and that is the point.

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Dossier · AI-frontier & modellen · 19 min

The Other AI Race

Why the race is not about the best model but about the chain beneath it.

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Dossier · Strategy & Adoption · 16 min

The Authenticity Crisis

Why images and audio stop counting as proof, and what still does.

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Dossier · AI & Werk · 17 min

The First Rung

Why the junior job vanished while the vacancies stayed, and what that costs six years out.

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Dossier · AI & Werk · 20 min

What Stays Human

The machine got better at doing. Vouching for the answer is what remained.

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Dossier · AI & Werk · 18 min

The Learning Paradox

Why the same AI teaches one person and hollows out another, and where that difference sits.

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Dossier · AI-frontier & modellen · 18 min

Power as Strategy

Why electricity is the scarce commodity of the decade, and what a grid queue does to a plan.

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Dossier · Strategy & Adoption · 25 min

Is It a Bubble?

Where the money for the AI buildout comes from, and why a third of it is not switched on.

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Dossier · Practice · 26 min

We Gave Our Social Media to AI

How we automated our own content pipeline, with a human at the controls.

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Dossier · Science · 19 min

The Discovery Machine

What AI quietly builds instead of takes: proteins, materials, mathematics, the first Nobel Prizes.

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Dossier · Working with AI · 15 min

Trust & Verify

AI generates faster than anyone can check. How you still know it is right.

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Dossier · Working with AI · 14 min

Workflows vs Agents

Everyone wants an autonomous agent. Often the right answer is a boring workflow.

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Dossier · Working with AI · 25 min

Context Engineering

Everyone learned to write prompts. The skill that counts now is managing what the model sees.

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Dossier · Working with AI · 16 min

The Harness

Everyone compares models. The bigger difference is the harness you build around them.

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Dossier · Working with AI · 18 min

The Loop

Everyone optimises the prompt. The teams that win optimise the loop.

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Dossier · Robotica & Physical AI · 31 min

The Humanoid Moment

Why physical AI and humanoid robots are arriving faster than expected.

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Dossier · AI-frontier & modellen · 30 min

The Exponential Blind Spot

Why organisations structurally underestimate exponential change.

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Weekly briefings

What moved that week, and what it means.

Short reads

Single observations, methods and explainers.

Praktijk · 3 min

How we AI'ed our own agency

We tell organisations that adoption is a design question. So we redesigned our own work first. A look inside the machine behind it.

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Praktijk · 3 min

Which workflows lend themselves to AI, and for which sectors

Four recognisable signatures show where AI genuinely saves time, and where human judgement stays indispensable.

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Methode · 2 min

Reasoning back from the future: the Three Horizons model

Why you start with a picture of where you want to end up, and then reason back to today's choice.

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Framework · 2 min

Why adoption works in this order: See, Understand, Adopt

Change that lasts starts with people who cannot yet see what is possible, and only then with strategy.

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Strategie & Adoptie · 8 min

The price column is the new leaderboard

Demographics, export controls and a discount rack at the frontier — five stories from this week that all turn out to be about the same thing: capability stopped being scarce, and something else became the constraint.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

The Robot That Fits the Field, Not the Mirror

Hybrid wheel-leg machines are quietly winning in agriculture while the industry stares at humanoids — and the design lesson applies to any environment you run.

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AI-frontier & modellen · 5 min

The Quiet Track: Why Sound Waves May Beat Brain Implants to the Finish Line

While implant startups collect the headlines, ultrasound-based brain interfaces are reading neural activity from outside the skull, and the gap is closing faster than I expected.

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Strategie & Adoptie · 4 min

China Is Electrifying the Hard End of Trucking First

37% of new trucks sold in China are electric, and the heaviest ones swap batteries faster than diesel refuels. The West is still debating whether that's possible.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

When Making Stops Taking Time

A Tsinghua lab just cured an entire object in resin in 0.6 seconds. The interesting part is what breaks when fabrication time stops scaling with size.

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Strategie & Adoptie · 5 min

The Chokepoint Theory Just Got Its First Real Stress Test

The US suspects a leading-edge ASML tool reached China. The entire export-control strategy assumes that never happens.

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AI-frontier & modellen · 5 min

The Map Is Becoming a Copy of the World

Spatial capture just collapsed from lidar rigs to the phone in your pocket — and that changes what a map is.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

The Bottleneck Just Moved: Why Fiber Muscles Matter More Than the Next Model Release

MIT's electrofluidic fiber muscles match the power density of human skeletal muscle. For humanoid robotics, that shifts a constraint most people assumed was permanent.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

When the Factory Can Rebuild the Factory

A self-upgrading 3D printer at Meiji University and a 0.6-second light-based printing method at Tsinghua point at the same shift: manufacturing is starting to run software's self-improvement loop.

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AI-frontier & modellen · 5 min

The IQ Chart Is a Door, Not a Ruler

Scoring frontier AI models on a human IQ scale tells you almost nothing about the models. It tells you a lot about how people want to understand them.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

When the Forecast Doubles Twice, Stop Reading the Number

Morgan Stanley revised its 2026 China humanoid shipment forecast by 3.5x in six months. The revisions themselves carry more signal than any single figure.

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Robotica & Physical AI · 5 min

Atlas Is a Supply Chain Now

Boston Dynamics rebuilt its humanoid around spare parts, swappable limbs, and automotive suppliers. That tells you more about where robotics is than any demo video.

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Methode · 2 min

The six dimensions on which you determine AI readiness

AI readiness is the sum of six things: understanding, urgency, leadership, people, data and the ability to absorb change.

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