The Math of Excellence
Quality is knowledge times practice times talent. A class built for Marines explains how people get good, why most AI rollouts stall at zero, and why RIG builds things.
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Insights
What we have learned getting AI and automation adopted inside real constraints, written from shipped work.
$90 Billion a Year, Managed by Nobody
We spend it against sustainment plans that name no performer and set no date. Why the policy we already have does not bind, and the one artifact that would change that: a sustainment transition plan written before Milestone B.
Read the article →What Building AI Tools for MCEN Taught Us About Constraints
Restricted clouds, blocked runtimes, no admin rights. The lessons from shipping an AI tool into Marine Corps networks, and why our newest tools have no backend at all.
Read the field note →Local-First AI: The Small-Business Case Against Subscription Sprawl
Four subscriptions, one re-entered dataset, and hours of weekly admin. Why we're building our own operating system on one local database, with AI that drafts and a human who approves.
Read the field note →Where 35.5 Hours Were Hiding: How the MRB Automation Actually Worked
Total reporting effort fell from 35.5 to 13.5 hours per cycle. Where the hours were hiding, what the automation replaced, and why standardizing the data mattered more than the dashboard.
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