By John Wheeler, Founder of Wheeler Intelligent Systems and Builder of a One-Person AI-Native Company I think I accidentally recreated a very old management problem with very new technology. I have been building Wheeler Intelligent Systems as an experiment in…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…