Bare Metal Software
How Native AI Makes Software Sovereignty Practical
Forthcoming
Intellectual Frontiers Press
Books
For builders and buyers of consequential software. Each fieldbook argues one idea and gives the reader the tools to act on it, and every book has an online companion of worksheets and tools.
25 books
For builders
Enterprise and AI-native software
The Method
How to Build AI-Native Systems That Find the Right Customers, Investors, Partners, Acquirers, Talent, and Funders at the Right Time
Forthcoming
Building the Workforce
Setting Up the Repository and Building the Inputs for an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act
Forthcoming
Running the Workforce
Operating an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act, from Its First Scheduled Job to Run
Forthcoming
The Code Takes Care of Itself
A CTO’s Practical Guide for Building Engineering Teams in an AI-first World
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
Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
AI Chiefs of Staff, BZO, and Project Discipline for AI-Native Teams
Forthcoming
Healthcare and medical technology
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
A Fieldbook for Turning Better Longitudinal Care into a Sustainable Business
Forthcoming
Publishing Experiment
The Editor’s Job After AI Is Tasteful Judgment
A Rolebook on Market Evidence, Release Authority, and Getting Books Found and Sold
Forthcoming
For buyers
Enterprise and AI-native software
For Leaders
How to Fund, Govern, and Judge an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act
Forthcoming
The CTO You Actually Need
How to Hire, Work With, and Evaluate the Right Technology Leader for Your Business
Forthcoming
Across domains
Acquired Alpha
How Buyers Tell Real Advantage From a Good Demo
Forthcoming
For builders and buyers
Defense and national security
You Are Not the Warfighter
Why the People Who Fight Should Build What They Fight With, and How AI Makes It Possible
Forthcoming
Enterprise and AI-native software
Chasing Native Alpha
How Executives Find and Fund What Sets Their Company Apart
Forthcoming
How to Describe Complex Ideas to Your AI
A Practical Guide to Specifications, Ontologies, and AI-Ready Work
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
Government and public buyers
Discoverability Engineering
A Fieldbook for Being Found by the Humans and AI Assembling Complex Supply Chains
Forthcoming
For Government and SLED Buyers
How Small Firms Find Public Buyers Who Can Buy Now
Forthcoming
Healthcare and medical technology
Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model
A Fieldbook for Turning Clinical Value into Something a Health System Can Actually Buy
Forthcoming
Medical Device Connectivity
A Fieldbook for Buying and Building Secure, Interoperable, AI-Ready Medical Devices
Forthcoming
Anthology
A No-BS Guide to Building & Buying Digital Health
Forthcoming
Automotive retail and service Experiment
FixedOps Performance
A Fieldbook for Finding Leakage, Coaching Performance, and Building a More Resilient Dealership
Forthcoming
Research funding and review Experiment
Surviving Scientific Review
How PIs Can Prepare for NIH Review
Forthcoming
Schools and education Experiment
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
A Fieldbook for Building Coherent Schools Around Children
Forthcoming
Experiments. A book marked Experiment serves builders and buyers in a field the press is testing before it commits to it. How readers receive it decides whether the press goes further there.
Series.
- Readiness Engineering: Building the Workforce, For Government and SLED Buyers, For Leaders, Running the Workforce, The Method
- Shahid Shah Show Anthology: Anthology