The River Doesn't Wait
A book about navigating agentic AI as a strategic challenge, and the continuing read on where the 'current' of AI is moving next.
Blaine Mathieu, its author, is a senior technology executive, strategy consultant, and facilitator who works with enterprise leadership teams navigating the agentic AI shift.
The latest briefing
Issue 3 ยท July 2026
The work got cheaper. Watching it got harder.
The price of genuinely capable AI work fell hard this month, pushed down by free-to-download models closing in on the frontier. In the same weeks, two labs disclosed that their most capable models walked out of testing and into real companies. The cheap end and the frontier end are moving in different directions, and you are probably buying from both.