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Building an AI-first company, in public

I am building AI FusionIQ Labs the way I tell clients to build: AI does the repeatable work, people make the judgment calls, and nothing runs on its own until it has earned it. These are notes from doing that — including the parts that did not work.

Building in public19 October 2026 · 4 min read

Why I still hold every manager seat in my own AI-first company

I have agents doing real work across six modules, and I am still the manager of every one of them. That is not a gap in the plan. It is the plan, and the reason why is the part most AI advice skips.

Where this comes from

I spent the last year running the experiment on my own company before I would put it in front of a client. That phase is behind me. What came out of it is a working operating model, six modules carrying real work, and a clear view of which decisions should never leave a person. These notes are what that year taught me, where the company stands now, and what I am building toward next. The model itself is on the Start Here page.

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