The About page now opens with a short deck about the problems the firm works on
A nine-slide deck at the top of About starts from what people are stuck on, says what the firm does about each, and ends with who to write to.
What's new
Everything new →AI-Prepared Dashboards Add Data Faster Than People Can Decide
This paper argues that AI-prepared dashboards and digests add information faster than people can act on it, and proposes a Decisions & NBA Board: a short queue of decisions, each with cited evidence, options, an owner with authority and a dated check on the result. It matters because a report that changes no decision is a cost. No hypothesis has been tested.
Communicating Engineering Team Effectiveness to Executive Peers
This paper proposes a field-testable operating model for CTOs: one traceable evidence base that executive peers can inspect for their own jobs without relying on the CTO's persuasion. It matters because senior leaders often judge engineering by remembered incidents and impressions. The six hypotheses have not been tested.
Unleash DD214 as the Olive Button
This paper proposes Olive Button, a Blue Button-style FHIR implementation pattern for DD214 service data that helps meet the 30-, 120-, and 180-day mandates of Executive Order 14426 using existing systems and standards. It matters because the order now requires records sharing at separation. The FHIR mapping is an implementation hypothesis, and the order does not mandate FHIR.
One page lists the new releases, papers, episodes and essays
What's new collects releases, papers, episodes and essays in one dated feed, newest first, with filters by area and kind and an Atom feed.
Every Press book can now have an online companion
Worksheets, field tools, coaching guides and sources that belong on a screen now live at a stable address beside each book, starting with The Code Takes Care of Itself.
Intellectual Frontiers Press
Books
All books →Intellectual Frontiers publishes working manuals for the people who build, buy, and run critical systems.
Acquired Alpha
How Buyers Tell Real Advantage From a Good Demo
Forthcoming
Anthology
A No-BS Guide to Building & Buying Digital Health
Forthcoming
Bare Metal Software
How Native AI Makes Software Sovereignty Practical
Forthcoming
Building the Workforce
Setting Up the Repository and Building the Inputs for an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act
Forthcoming
Chasing Native Alpha
How Executives Find and Fund What Sets Their Company Apart
Forthcoming
Discoverability Engineering
A Fieldbook for Being Found by the Humans and AI Assembling Complex Supply Chains
Forthcoming
Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model
A Fieldbook for Turning Clinical Value into Something a Health System Can Actually Buy
Forthcoming
FixedOps Performance
A Fieldbook for Finding Leakage, Coaching Performance, and Building a More Resilient Dealership
ForthcomingExperiment
For Government and SLED Buyers
How Small Firms Find Public Buyers Who Can Buy Now
Forthcoming
For Leaders
How to Fund, Govern, and Judge an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act
Forthcoming
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
A Fieldbook for Turning Better Longitudinal Care into a Sustainable Business
Forthcoming
How to Describe Complex Ideas to Your AI
A Practical Guide to Specifications, Ontologies, and AI-Ready Work
Forthcoming
Medical Device Connectivity
A Fieldbook for Buying and Building Secure, Interoperable, AI-Ready Medical Devices
Forthcoming
People, Products, and Ideas Are Not the Same Thing
Eidolon, Ergon, and Noema: Why AI Needs to Understand What Exists, What We Build, and What We Think
Forthcoming
Running the Workforce
Operating an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act, from Its First Scheduled Job to Run
Forthcoming
Surviving Scientific Review
How PIs Can Prepare for NIH Review
ForthcomingExperiment
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
A Fieldbook for Building Coherent Schools Around Children
ForthcomingExperiment
The Code Takes Care of Itself
A CTO’s Practical Guide for Building Engineering Teams in an AI-first World
Forthcoming
The CTO You Actually Need
How to Hire, Work With, and Evaluate the Right Technology Leader for Your Business
Forthcoming
The Editor’s Job After AI Is Tasteful Judgment
A Rolebook on Market Evidence, Release Authority, and Getting Books Found and Sold
ForthcomingExperiment
The Method
How to Build AI-Native Systems That Find the Right Customers, Investors, Partners, Acquirers, Talent, and Funders at the Right Time
Forthcoming
The Product Manager’s New Job Is Acceptance
Adversarial Testing from ICP to Adoption
Forthcoming
You Are Not the User
How B2B Software Lost Touch With the People Who Do the Work, and How AI Gives Us a Chance to Fix It
Forthcoming
You Are Not the Warfighter
Why the People Who Fight Should Build What They Fight With, and How AI Makes It Possible
Forthcoming
Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
AI Chiefs of Staff, BZO, and Project Discipline for AI-Native Teams
Forthcoming
Products you can use today
All products →Open skills to hand to your own AI or follow by hand, and the software and services anyone can use to build consequential solutions.
Skill
Administrative Denominator Reduction
When a practice wants to cut what a Medicare between-visit program costs to run without cutting care, decide what to automate first, find out whether it really needs another coordinator or nurse, or stop a monitoring or alert stream from…
Skill
AI Automation Triage
When the user wants to decide which tasks or capabilities their team should automate with AI, which need human review or decision rights, and which AI is quietly eroding versus strengthening as a real advantage.
Skill
Bare Metal Day 2 Runbook
When the user wants to execute or rehearse a Bare Metal Software Day 2 operational procedure against their own system - restoring from backup, rotating a secret, shipping a hotfix, onboarding or offboarding a customer, handling a vulnerable…
Skill
Bare Metal Security Defaults Audit
When the user wants to audit or design their application's security posture using Bare Metal Software's "four attackers" model and crown-jewels framework, including mapping defaults to a regulated buyer's security questionnaire.
Skill
Bootstrap a Chief of Staff
When the user wants to set up an AI Chief of Staff for a software project - a persistent reasoning layer that watches a repository's specifications, decisions, issues, tests, and meetings, and reconciles them, without becoming the project's…
Skill
Build (and Keep Alive) Your Engineering Playbook
When a technology leader wants to build a real, living engineering playbook — starting with version control, code review, and CI/CD — instead of a rulebook nobody reads, or wants to audit an existing set of engineering processes and set up…
JINFRO
The Journal →Published Research in The Journal of Intellectual Frontiers
Position
Eidolons: A Working Digital Reflection
A working digital reflection of a person, company, customer, product, or system: a likeness with enough grounded evidence for an AI to reason about the real thing accurately and flexibly.
Position
Intellectual Product-Led Growth
IPLG: the framework for turning a unit's research, frameworks, and expertise into something a visitor can use directly, and Press's own discipline for how an intellectual product gets promoted, sold, and diffused without becoming marketing.
AI-Prepared Dashboards Add Data Faster Than People Can Decide
This paper argues that AI-prepared dashboards and digests add information faster than people can act on it, and proposes a Decisions & NBA Board: a short queue of decisions, each with cited evidence, options, an owner with authority and a dated check on the result. It matters because a report that changes no decision is a cost. No hypothesis has been tested.
Working paper
Communicating Engineering Team Effectiveness to Executive Peers
This paper proposes a field-testable operating model for CTOs: one traceable evidence base that executive peers can inspect for their own jobs without relying on the CTO's persuasion. It matters because senior leaders often judge engineering by remembered incidents and impressions. The six hypotheses have not been tested.
Working paper
Unleash DD214 as the Olive Button
This paper proposes Olive Button, a Blue Button-style FHIR implementation pattern for DD214 service data that helps meet the 30-, 120-, and 180-day mandates of Executive Order 14426 using existing systems and standards. It matters because the order now requires records sharing at separation. The FHIR mapping is an implementation hypothesis, and the order does not mandate FHIR.
Working paper
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
Biotech commercialization should be treated as an engineering discipline
An editorial arguing that biotech commercialization should be run the way engineering is run, with specifications, measurement, and repeatable process, rather than treated as a series of one-off translational events. The
Journal of Translational Medicine
Integrating trust into artificial intelligence for medicine: using diabetes as the exemplar disease
Patients, clinicians, administrators, regulators, and AI developers each need a reason to trust medical AI, and diabetes shows what that takes. Trust requires moving beyond single deterministic outputs to clear standards
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
Research Code Sharing in Support of Gold Standard Science
This article argues that sharing research code in an open access, version-controlled repository benefits science and individual researchers, and aligns with the NIH Gold Standard Science program and the FAIR and TRUST pr
Patents
All patents →58 patents in 30 families, offered for licence or acquisition.
Healthcare delivery
Computer-Controlled Smart Referrals System And Method
- US20250157609A1 published
Pending
Healthcare delivery
Digital Native Trials Management System
- US20250111908A1 published
Pending
Marketplaces and payments
Computer-Controlled Marketplace Network For Digital Transactions
- US11880882B2 granted
- US12437338B2 granted
- US12688531B2 granted
- US12694451B2 granted
Granted
Evidence and decisions
Collaborative, Continuous, And Comprehensive Risk Management System
- US20250095861A1 published
Pending
Healthcare delivery
Team-Based Tele-Diagnostics Blockchain-Enabled System
- US11769573B2 granted
- US12658290B2 granted
Granted
Learning and content
System For Management Of Rewardable Computer-Controlled Content Blocks Delivery And Consumption
- US12155747B2 granted
- US12652158B2 granted
Granted
The Shahid Shah Show on HealthcareNOW Radio
All episodes →- 20 September 2026
- 3 September 2026
- 23 August 2026
- 9 August 2026
- 26 July 2026
Ventures, companies and funds
All of them →Venture
Ambient Biomarkers Reference Lab
A reference lab for biomarkers captured passively from ordinary sensors: voice, gait, respiration, facial expression, wearable and metabolic signals, standardized into panels, reported like any other lab result, and governed by an integrated review board and clinician network.
In build
Fund
Care Delivery Fund II
Back the clinicians rebuilding care delivery. An intelligence engine built on CMS and claims data decides whether the firm invests in a founder already in motion, takes selective control of an operator worth re-platforming, or builds the company itself.
In formation
Venture
Continuous Care OS
An operating system for supervising an accountable digital care operation. A clinical leader reviews decisions, evidence, and billing as a queue of work with owners and dates, instead of hunting through a dashboard for whatever went wrong.
In build
Venture
OurHakeem
Verified practitioner consults delivered online, with a real operating stack behind the booking screen: intake, a longitudinal care record, agents that carry the routine work, a clinician copilot, and the compliance apparatus a regulated consult requires.
In build
Venture
Payshent
An HSA card that pays patients a data dividend for consented, de-identified health data. No surveys, no tracking: the value exchange rides on the card transaction itself. The privacy architecture (HIPAA Expert Determination de-identification, transparent revocable consent, IRB oversight for research partnerships) is the work, not the marketing.
In build
Fund
Care Delivery Fund I
A small, working fund that incubates the foundational ventures and shared services the rest of the portfolio will run on: demand intelligence, revenue operations, an execution layer for providers, and ambient measurement.
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