Studies

How Business Owners Build Wealth

What a business earns depends far less on the hours that its owner works than on the kind of work that she spends them on. Across the five articles in this study, I set out the four levels of value, from doing every job yourself to keeping only the decisions.

1. 01

   Your Business Is Struggling Because You Are the One Doing the Work

   21 Aug 20265 min read

2. 02

   The Four Levels of Value: Why Thinking Pays More Than Doing

   28 Aug 20266 min read

3. 03

   Successful Owners Pay Other People to Do the Hard Work

   4 Sept 20266 min read

4. 04

   Selling Is the Easiest Skill You Will Ever Learn

   11 Sept 20265 min read

5. 05

   You Can Hire Every Part of Your Business Except the Thinking

   18 Sept 20265 min read

Your AI Agent Is Not Hallucinating. Your Search Is Broken, and You Can Prove It.

Your agent can still provide wrong answers after you swap the model over, rewrite the prompt, and drop the temperature. The fault is one step earlier, in the search step that returns the passages from which your agent generates its answers. By the end of this study, you can measure that step, find what limits it, and prove that the fault is gone after your change.

1. 01

   Keyword, Vector, and Hybrid Search: How the Engine Matches Your Question to Its Answer

   24 Jun 202626 min read

2. 02

   Most AI Hallucinations Are Retrieval Failures in Disguise

   21 Jul 202610 min read

3. 03

   How to Prove Your Search Is the Problem, Not the Model

   24 Aug 202616 min read

4. 04

   Why Your Agent Misses Answers That Are Already in Your Documents

   31 Aug 202618 min read

5. 05

   Before You Pay for Vector Search, Try This Test

   7 Sept 202610 min read