Chasing Native Alpha
How Executives Find and Fund What Sets Their Company Apart
When everyone can build, advantage comes from knowing what deserves to exist.
Fieldbooks
Working manuals for the people who build, buy, and run technology, grouped by subject, alongside the publications we run and the tools readers can use.
Executive leadership
Technology leadership and engineering
The Code Takes Care of Itself
A CTO's Practical Guide for Building Engineering Teams in an AI-first World
How to build high performance teams the way the best athletic club coaches do.
Bare Metal Software
How Native AI Makes Software Sovereignty Practical
When AI maintains the code, dependencies become a choice again.
The CTO You Actually Need
How to Hire, Work With, and Evaluate the Right Technology Leader for Your Business
A plain-English field guide with AI-assisted tools for every major decision.
Healthcare and life sciences
Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model
A Fieldbook for Turning Clinical Value into Something a Health System Can Actually Buy
If this is the right thing to do, who has an economic and organizational reason to make it happen?
Surviving Scientific Review
How PIs Can Navigate NIH, Reduce Information Asymmetry, and Improve Their Path to an Award
Play the game hard, respect the officials, and never confuse preparation with manipulation.
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
A Fieldbook for Turning Better Longitudinal Care into a Sustainable Business
Medicare already pays for more of the right thing than most practices collect. The missing piece is the operation.
Medical Device Connectivity
A Fieldbook for Buying and Building Secure, Interoperable, AI-Ready Medical Devices
Safe offline. Better online.
Product, operations, and delivery
FixedOps Performance
A Fieldbook for Finding Leakage, Coaching Performance, and Building a More Resilient Dealership
Profit is always an objective. It is never the lever; the operating system underneath it is.
Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
AI Chiefs of Staff, BZO, and Project Discipline for AI-Native Teams
Zero bureaucracy doesn't mean zero management. It means removing the machinery, not the discipline.
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
If you want to know how users use the software, watch users use the software.
The Product Manager’s New Job Is Acceptance
Adversarial Testing from ICP to Adoption
When software is cheap to build, the product manager’s job is proving that the intended customer will find it, use it, and keep it.
Public institutions and schools
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
A Fieldbook for Building Coherent Schools Around Children
Specialize the adults. Integrate the child’s experience.
You Are Not the Warfighter
Why the People Who Fight Should Build What They Fight With, and How AI Makes It Possible
The best-trained force in history should integrate its own systems. Industry should be its supply chain.
Publications we run
A major work is not only a book. These are the channels we own and curate continuously, each with its own audience and its own record in the portfolio.
OperationalTruth.org
The record of what systems actually do in the field versus what they are documented to do, which is where our findings start.
Medigy.com
A health innovation discovery platform: crowd-curated technology, use cases, and market signal used as an intelligence surface, not a blog.
CompliantInSecurity.com
The standing argument that passing an audit is not the same as being secure, written for the people who own both obligations.
GovConIC.com
GovCon Intelligence Center (GovCon IC): the publication for how public agencies buy, modernize, and evaluate technology.
HealthcareGuys.com
A healthcare media network of news, interviews, and vendor coverage written for the people who buy and run health technology, not the people who sell it.
HealthcareGuy.com
The longest continuous record in the publishing program: a personal site where health IT arguments, field observations, and invention sketches have been published in public for two decades.
Tools and summaries
Some arguments are easier to use than to read. These are the working pieces readers can put straight to use.
- AI Slop Check
A free check on whether a business document is specific and useful enough to circulate, or interchangeable filler.
- Patent summaries
What each invention covers, written for operators rather than examiners.
- Writing and field notes
Our arguments and evidence, in the order we published them.
- Portfolio of substantial works
Every book, research program, publication, and summary series, listed alongside what it argues for.
About the imprint
Intellectual Frontiers Press publishes to make a thesis inspectable, then treats what readers challenge, adopt, or pay for as evidence. That includes how we choose what to publish, how corrections are handled, and how we partner on events rather than run them.
Latest from the imprint
Everything that changedUpdatePress
Blank copies of every field tool and the research kit are in the online companion
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart: The seven field tools, the Child Experience Fragmentation Diagnostic, and the research kit are now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com as blank forms you can open on a screen, copy into a shared document, and fill in...
NewPress
New book: The Product Manager's New Job Is Acceptance
The Product Manager’s New Job Is Acceptance: A product can pass QA and scripted acceptance testing and still fail the people it was built for.
UpdatePress
The fill-in tools can be downloaded as spreadsheets
Medical Device Connectivity: Fourteen of the buyer and builder tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer a spreadsheet download of their tables, including the Device Classification Worksheet, the Four Truths Data Inventory, the Device...