Archive - Shift*Academy

Open Models, Technology Diffusion & the Shift from Renting to Owning AI

Kimi K3 shows open models can compete with the best, and might provide a better foundation for enterprises as they shift from renting to owning their AI…

6 hrs ago • Lee Bryant

Designing for Bounded Autonomy

A new leadership design challenge for organisations when rethinking how authority flows.

Jul 14 • Cerys Hearsey

The Token Apocalypse & Agentic Ecosystem Design

How can simple agents and small models can create a more reliable form of agentic intelligence than continued reliance on frontier models for everything

Jul 7 • Lee Bryant

June 2026

Designing a Capability Interface

How discoverability may become the next layer of organisational design.

Jun 30 • Cerys Hearsey

Context, Codification & Cognitive Capabilities

Links and musings on the challenge of building continuous learning engines for agentic AI in the enterprise

Jun 23 • Lee Bryant

Operational Intelligence in Shared Agent Networks

How can enterprises build reusable operational intelligence to support shared agents without recreating the failures of centralisation?

Jun 16 • Cerys Hearsey

Don't Outsource Agentic Capability Design

Why operational leaders are an under-used design resource in enterprise AI

Jun 9 • Lee Bryant

How AI Can Make Organisational Capabilities More Navigable

Why AI may finally make organisational capabilities easier to access.

Jun 2 • Cerys Hearsey

May 2026

Agents are Easy; the Agentic Enterprise is Not

Could personal agents with minimal data integration provide a learning path towards more fully-functional agentic AI? And do we need frontier models for…

May 26 • Lee Bryant

The Soft Edge of AI Transformation

Why the organisations winning with AI are getting good at precisely what traditional management is worst at

May 19 • Cerys Hearsey

CHROs as Systems Architects not Programme Owners

Programmes, people and performance - why AI is exposing what HR was never designed to do

May 12 • Lee Bryant

The Missing Middle of AI Adoption

A practical technique for upgrading the coordination layer where AI actually creates value at the team level

May 5 • Cerys Hearsey

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