Intellectual Frontiers, what's newhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/whats-new2026-09-30T00:00:00ZIntellectual Frontiers LLCBlank copies of every field tool and the research kit are in the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-child-should-never-experience-the-organizational-chart#2026-09-30-blank-copies-of-every-field-tool-and-the-research-kit-are-in2026-09-30T00:00:00ZThe 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...New book: The Product Manager's New Job Is Acceptancehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/pm-new-job-is-acceptance#2026-09-30-new-book-the-product-manager-s-new-job-is-acceptance2026-09-30T00:00:00ZThe 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.One page now lists everything that changed on the sitehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/whats-new2026-09-30T00:00:00ZWhat's new collects new research, patents, portfolio works, book updates, and site changes in one dated feed, with filters by area and kind and an Atom feed.The fill-in tools can be downloaded as spreadsheetshttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/medical-device-connectivity#2026-09-30-the-fill-in-tools-can-be-downloaded-as-spreadsheets2026-09-30T00:00:00ZMedical 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...The full playbook from every chapter is now in the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-code-takes-care-of-itself#2026-09-30-the-full-playbook-from-every-chapter-is-now-in-the-online-co2026-09-30T00:00:00ZThe Code Takes Care of Itself: Each of the 23 chapters ends on a playbook, and the complete version of every one is now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, in chapter order.The interview work samples can be downloaded as a spreadsheethttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-cto-you-actually-need#2026-09-30-the-interview-work-samples-can-be-downloaded-as-a-spreadshee2026-09-30T00:00:00ZThe CTO You Actually Need: The work-samples page in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offers its scoring table as a spreadsheet download, so you can score candidates side by side in the tool you already use.The PI checklist and the skill catalog are now on the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/surviving-scientific-review#2026-09-30-the-pi-checklist-and-the-skill-catalog-are-now-on-the-online2026-09-30T00:00:00ZSurviving Scientific Review: The two reference tools at the back of the book can now be used on a screen at intellectualfrontiers.com.The prompts and record schemas are now on the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/zero-bureaucracy-product-and-project-management#2026-09-30-the-prompts-and-record-schemas-are-now-on-the-online-compani2026-09-30T00:00:00ZZero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management: You can now copy the book’s two working appendices straight from a screen at intellectualfrontiers.com.Twelve field tools can be downloaded as spreadsheetshttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-warfighter#2026-09-30-twelve-field-tools-can-be-downloaded-as-spreadsheets2026-09-30T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the Warfighter: All twelve field tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer their tables as spreadsheet downloads, including the Gate Map, the Distance to the Fight record, the Sustainment Tail Test and the Warfighter Evidence...Twenty field tools can be downloaded as spreadsheetshttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-user#2026-09-30-twenty-field-tools-can-be-downloaded-as-spreadsheets2026-09-30T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the User: Twenty of the field tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer their tables as spreadsheet downloads, among them the Who Is the User worksheet, the User Evidence Ladder, the UAT Distance Scale, the...Two APCM and PIN billing rules corrected in the book, and every fact card re-checkedhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/getting-paid-to-do-the-right-thing#2026-09-30-two-apcm-and-pin-billing-rules-corrected-in-the-book-and-eve2026-09-30T00:00:00ZGetting Paid to Do the Right Thing: Two sentences about combining programs were too broad. The rule that keeps Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) and Transitional Care Management (TCM) from being billed together for the same patient in the same month binds the one...A new ladder shows where your program's state should livehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/bare-metal-software#2026-09-29-a-new-ladder-shows-where-your-program-s-state-should-live2026-09-29T00:00:00ZBare Metal Software: The book now opens every storage decision with one question: what is the simplest reliable way to store this state?All twenty field tools are now in the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/medical-device-connectivity#2026-09-29-all-twenty-field-tools-are-now-in-the-online-companion2026-09-29T00:00:00ZMedical Device Connectivity: The two printed appendices of field tools, one for hospital buyers and one for device builders, are now twenty tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, with every table and checklist carried over row for row.Every Press book can now have an online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/companion/the-code-takes-care-of-itself2026-09-29T00:00:00ZThe Code Takes Care of Itself: 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.Field guides, C-suite coaching guides and a workbook are now in the online companionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-code-takes-care-of-itself#2026-09-29-field-guides-c-suite-coaching-guides-and-a-workbook-are-now-2026-09-29T00:00:00ZThe Code Takes Care of Itself: The material a reader fills in, prints or brings to a meeting is now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, 25 pages in all.Ship one container by default, with Litestream and TLS inside ithttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/bare-metal-software#2026-09-29-ship-one-container-by-default-with-litestream-and-tls-inside2026-09-29T00:00:00ZBare Metal Software: If you run your own servers, the book now makes one container the default.The Companion Workbook is online: a full hiring kit for the CTO rolehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-cto-you-actually-need#2026-09-29-the-companion-workbook-is-online-a-full-hiring-kit-for-the-c2026-09-29T00:00:00ZThe CTO You Actually Need: The book's workbook is now a 32-page online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com that takes you from defining the role to evaluating the appointment.The field tools and AI prompts are now online, twenty-four of themhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-user#2026-09-29-the-field-tools-and-ai-prompts-are-now-online-twenty-four-of2026-09-29T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the User: The twenty-one field tools and three AI prompts left the printed book and are now 27 pages in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, where you can use them with your team.The twelve field tools are now onlinehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-warfighter#2026-09-29-the-twelve-field-tools-are-now-online2026-09-29T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the Warfighter: Appendix A, the twelve field tools, is now 14 pages in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com. Use "Sort Each System by Who Should Integrate It" to decide what a unit builds and what stays with industry.The worksheets, scorecard and program fact cards are now online, with short versions in printhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/getting-paid-to-do-the-right-thing#2026-09-29-the-worksheets-scorecard-and-program-fact-cards-are-now-onli2026-09-29T00:00:00ZGetting Paid to Do the Right Thing: The working tools that run a between-visit care operation moved from seven printed appendices to the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, where you can use them on a screen and where the fact cards can be corrected when Medicare...Chapter 10 now starts with the charter, and scaling gets its own chapterhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-warfighter#2026-09-27-chapter-10-now-starts-with-the-charter-and-scaling-gets-its-2026-09-27T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the Warfighter: A team charter now comes first. "A Warwright Team Needs Authority, Money, and Time Before It Needs Code" opens with the charter, so a team knows who can say yes before it builds anything.New book: Medical Device Connectivityhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/medical-device-connectivity#2026-09-27-new-book-medical-device-connectivity2026-09-27T00:00:00ZMedical Device Connectivity: Most hospital devices do real clinical and operational work, and most of them can't report what they did. When a device can't report, staff write it down by hand, rebuild it later, or never learn it at all.Studios explains when it builds, and what a partner gets on day onehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/studios/about2026-09-27T00:00:00ZA new page argues that Studios should build only when a serious search finds no better-positioned builder, starting with the cheapest useful experiment.Studios now shows every company, service and piece of software it has charteredhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/studios2026-09-27T00:00:00ZThe Studios page lists its ventures, shared services, operating companies and maintained software, each with its status, its operator and its record on file.The book now speaks to every member of the C-suitehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/chasing-native-alpha#2026-09-27-the-book-now-speaks-to-every-member-of-the-c-suite2026-09-27T00:00:00ZChasing Native Alpha: The book began as a guide for CTOs. It now gives each executive a chapter on how their role finds and protects the advantage only their company owns. The CEO decides where the company concentrates.The IP page now asks what each discovery should becomehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/ip2026-09-27T00:00:00ZResearch and IP is reframed around five questions that decide whether an advantage deserves a patent, a trade secret, a publication, a licence, or nothing at all.New book: You Are Not the Userhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-user#2026-09-26-new-book-you-are-not-the-user2026-09-26T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the User: Competent, caring people can build the wrong software when the information reaching them has passed through a chain of handoffs.New book: You Are Not the Warfighterhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/you-are-not-the-warfighter#2026-09-26-new-book-you-are-not-the-warfighter2026-09-26T00:00:00ZYou Are Not the Warfighter: The people who know the fight have always had to wait for someone else to build what they fight with, and AI now makes integration cheap enough for them to build more of it themselves.New book: Getting Paid to Do the Right Thinghttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/getting-paid-to-do-the-right-thing#2026-09-24-new-book-getting-paid-to-do-the-right-thing2026-09-24T00:00:00ZGetting Paid to Do the Right Thing: Medicare already pays for the between-visit care most practices deliver, and most practices haven't built the operation that earns the payment.A browser tool tests whether funding would speed up a repeatable customer motionhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/capital/seed-readiness2026-09-20T00:00:00ZThe seed and early-capital readiness tool gives a verdict on whether money would accelerate a repeatable customer motion or only extend the search for one.New book: The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Charthttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-child-should-never-experience-the-organizational-chart#2026-09-20-new-book-the-child-should-never-experience-the-organizationa2026-09-20T00:00:00ZThe Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart: Every specialist in a school can be competent and the child can still be let down by the handoffs between them.New book: Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Modelhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/doing-the-right-thing-is-not-a-business-model#2026-09-19-new-book-doing-the-right-thing-is-not-a-business-model2026-09-19T00:00:00ZDoing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model: A product can be clinically effective, FDA cleared, loved by physicians and proven in a pilot, and still have no path to a purchase, because the person who benefits is rarely the person who pays, and there is no single customer inside "the...New book: FixedOps Performancehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/fixedops-performance#2026-09-19-new-book-fixedops-performance2026-09-19T00:00:00ZFixedOps Performance: Most fixed operations problems do not arrive as large failures.New book: Surviving Scientific Reviewhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/surviving-scientific-review#2026-09-18-new-book-surviving-scientific-review2026-09-18T00:00:00ZSurviving Scientific Review: NIH received 62,592 Research Project Grant applications in fiscal year 2025 and funded about 13 percent.New book: Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Managementhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/zero-bureaucracy-product-and-project-management#2026-09-18-new-book-zero-bureaucracy-product-and-project-management2026-09-18T00:00:00ZZero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management: AI made building cheap, but most project management still assumes it is expensive. A team can now build the wrong feature fast and well, and turn a passing thought from an executive into working software before anyone decides anything.Computer-Controlled Smart Referrals System And Methodhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/portfolio/patent-computer-controlled-smart-referrals-system-and-method2026-09-17T00:00:00ZFirst filed 2024-01-17. 2 filings on record with the USPTO.Adversarial simulation may replace part of annual traininghttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/simulation-instead-of-annual-training2026-09-15T00:00:00ZGenerated, varied, current scenarios delivered continuously and measured behaviourally are a plausible substitute for a yearly module. Plausible is not proven.Backups are usually out of scope, and usually full of the datahttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/backups-are-in-scope-for-privacy2026-09-15T00:00:00ZRetention and deletion policies often exclude backups for practical reasons. The exclusion is defensible. Leaving it unstated in the notice is not.Consent language without enforcement is a claim about intenthttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/consent-without-enforcement2026-09-15T00:00:00ZIf withholding consent does not change what a system does with a record, the consent mechanism only keeps a record of the choice. It does not enforce it.Credential reset at scale is required and almost never rehearsedhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/credential-reset-at-scale-is-unrehearsed2026-09-15T00:00:00ZSerious intrusions usually end with rotating every credential, key, token, certificate, and service account. Most organisations have never attempted this even partially.Deletion is the sharpest privacy testhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/deletion-is-the-privacy-test2026-09-15T00:00:00ZA verified end-to-end deletion exercises the data map, the vendor list, the backup policy, and the derived-data problem at once. Few organisations pass it on the first attempt.Design out the memory dependencyhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/design-out-the-memory-dependency2026-09-15T00:00:00ZFor each control that depends on a person recalling guidance under pressure, look for a technical arrangement that makes the safe action the default or the only one.Do not publish a resilience formula yethttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/do-not-publish-a-formula-yet2026-09-15T00:00:00ZPeople often ask for one weighted score. Publishing it before the measures are validated would give an untested formula the look of certainty.Escalation paths decay quietlyhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/escalation-paths-decay2026-09-15T00:00:00ZContacts leave, numbers change, portals replace phone trees, and contracts renew with different terms. An untested escalation path is an assumption with a date on it.Fluent output is not evidencehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/fluent-output-is-not-evidence2026-09-15T00:00:00ZA generated security assessment reads better than a human one and is harder to doubt. Readability and correctness are unrelated properties.Generate the policy from the enforced rulehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/policy-generated-from-the-enforced-rule2026-09-15T00:00:00ZWhere a platform enforces a setting, produce the written policy from that configuration. Then the rule and the document cannot drift apart.Governance runs short of time for judgmenthttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/governance-judgment-is-the-scarce-part2026-09-15T00:00:00ZWhen collecting and formatting evidence takes most GRC hours, little time remains for decisions. Automating the clerical work may give that time back.Keep evidence that can be reproducedhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/evidence-that-regenerates2026-09-15T00:00:00ZA screenshot is a claim about a moment. A stored query with provenance can be re-run by the reader, which changes what the evidence is worth.Let machines watch; keep consequential decisions with peoplehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/ai-does-the-remembering2026-09-15T00:00:00ZMachines can watch systems and prepare evidence. People remain responsible for decisions that cannot be reversed.Measure the time between each response stephttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/measure-the-intervals-not-the-incidents2026-09-15T00:00:00ZIncident counts depend on how hard an organisation looks. Detection, containment, and recovery intervals can be generated on demand and compared over time.New book: Bare Metal Softwarehttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/bare-metal-software#2026-09-15-new-book-bare-metal-software2026-09-15T00:00:00ZBare Metal Software: AI can write more code, and that changes which layers of software you still need. Software stacks grew tall because human developers needed abstractions, frameworks and managed services to make hard work practical.New book: Chasing Native Alphahttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/chasing-native-alpha#2026-09-15-new-book-chasing-native-alpha2026-09-15T00:00:00ZChasing Native Alpha: AI made building cheap, so what you choose to build now decides your advantage. When every competitor can reach the same models, coding agents and cloud infrastructure, producing more software is no longer a strategy.New book: The Code Takes Care of Itselfhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-code-takes-care-of-itself#2026-09-15-new-book-the-code-takes-care-of-itself2026-09-15T00:00:00ZThe Code Takes Care of Itself: AI gives every competitor the same tools, and the CTO's job is to build a team that wins with them. AI didn't make the job easier; it moved the bottleneck.New book: The CTO You Actually Needhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/press/whats-new/the-cto-you-actually-need#2026-09-15-new-book-the-cto-you-actually-need2026-09-15T00:00:00ZThe CTO You Actually Need: The CTO title covers very different jobs. A startup builder, an SME technology leader, a business-unit CTO, an enterprise strategist and a fractional adviser can all be excellent, but not for the same company at the same time.Phishing resistance belongs in the credentialhttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/phishing-resistance-is-a-property-of-the-credential2026-09-15T00:00:00ZOrigin-bound, hardware-backed authentication removes a whole class of failure regardless of how convincing the message was. This is the clearest available example of design beating vigilance.Put the last demonstrated RTO beside the targethttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/demonstrated-rto-not-target-rto2026-09-15T00:00:00ZA recovery objective is a statement of intent written during planning. The useful number is the one produced by the last real restore, with the date attached.Requirements with no evidence source are more common than failed controlshttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/gaps-are-more-common-than-failures2026-09-15T00:00:00ZWhen requirements are mapped to operational data sources, the largest category is usually requirements that no system can currently answer at all.The audit passed and the network was flathttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/the-audit-passed-and-the-network-was-flat2026-09-15T00:00:00ZCertification scope is negotiated. A clean report describes the environment that was examined against the controls that were selected, at the time of the examination.The restore worked and took four dayshttps://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/the-restore-that-took-four-days2026-09-15T00:00:00ZA restore can return all the data and still come too late. Time, sequence, and hidden dependencies often cause the loss.The tool was purchased. Was it tested?https://www.intellectualfrontiers.com/research-notes/the-tool-was-purchased-not-tested2026-09-15T00:00:00ZProcurement produces a deployment date. Nothing in the ordinary purchase process produces evidence that the tool changes an attack outcome in this environment.