Your AI Agent Needs a Job Description
By John Wheeler Companies are getting very good at giving AI tools a task. They are less sure what to do when the tool starts doing that task every day. In a demo, an AI agent can draft a report,…
John Wheeler | Founder of Wheeler Intelligent Systems
Helping businesses put AI to work through research, practical tools, and controlled experiments.
John Wheeler | Founder of Wheeler Intelligent Systems
Helping businesses put AI to work through research, practical tools, and controlled experiments.
John Wheeler
What I’ve Learned From Trying to Build an AI-Native Company
For the past several months, I’ve been running an experiment. Instead of spending all my time trying to predict what artificial intelligence might eventually do to business, I decided to start building around it. What happens if you stop treating…
AI’s Next Problem Isn’t Intelligence. It’s Reliability.
I’ve spent a lot of time lately doing something different with AI. I stopped asking it questions and started asking it to work. There is a much bigger difference between those two things than I expected. Ask one of today’s…
What Does an AI Agent See When It Looks at Your Products
Why food manufacturers need to test whether their product data can answer real questions I was recently in a meeting looking at our product data in Syndigo, and everyone in the room was frustrated. We knew the information was important…
What Mars Taught Me About the Future of Foodservice Product Data
Most of the information that will influence a foodservice purchase is not on the label. It is in the digital record around the product. By John Wheeler I recently reviewed a presentation from Mars and K10X called Beyond the Label.…
I Built an AI Worker. Then I Spent More Time Teaching It What Not to Do.
When I started building AI workers for Wheeler Intelligent Systems, I expected the hard part to be getting them to do useful work. Could an AI worker understand a job? Could it use the right tools? Could it complete work…
The Future Company Will Manage Humans and AI Together
By John Wheeler The companies that gain the most from artificial intelligence will not be the ones that remove the most people. They will be the ones that learn how to combine human judgment with machine capability. People and AI…
Reinventing Your Company Around How People Actually Shop
By John Wheeler For a long time, the path to a sale was fairly easy to understand. A customer walked into a store, opened a catalog, called a salesperson, or ordered through a distributor. The seller controlled most of the…
Who Is Managing Your AI Workers
By John Wheeler The biggest near-term risk from business AI is not a machine suddenly taking control of the world. It is a capable system entering a company with an unclear job, broad access, weak controls, and no accountable manager.…
Your Company Bought AI. Now What?
How to turn an AI subscription into useful, governed business capacity By John Wheeler Buying AI gives a company access to capability. It does not decide what that capability should do, what information it should trust, or who is responsible…
AI Is the Chainsaw of Knowledge Work
The tool becomes more powerful. Human skill becomes more valuable. By John Wheeler From Axes and Crosscut Saws My great-grandfather came to America as an immigrant. He helped clear the great forests of the Pacific Northwest using axes and crosscut…
AI Does Not Replace the Human. It Makes the Human More Productive.
There is a popular story about artificial intelligence that begins with fear: AI is coming for your job. I think that story starts in the wrong place. AI does not replace the human at all. AI is a tool. Excel…