I write this column the way I work with clients. Start from a real question, get the data straight, then say what I actually think.

The research and the drafting are AI-assisted, and I would rather show you the mechanism than wave at it. An agent scans the week in association technology and corroborates each number across independent search results before it reaches a draft. What it cannot do is open the sources it cites. It works from search results, not from the documents themselves, and that is a real limit rather than a footnote: it is how a figure that everyone repeats can pass a check while tracing back to nothing.

So a second check runs after a piece is published. That one does open every citation, reads the claim against the live source, and files what it finds in public. It is scheduled, not guaranteed. In July 2026 it stopped running for two weeks without telling anyone, three pieces went unchecked, and I found out by accident. When it came back it failed eleven of twelve articles, including this page, which was promising you a weekly check that was not happening. I fixed the cause, added an alarm for the next lapse, and left the findings up. A promise you cannot audit is worth nothing, so the corrections live where you can read them.

Who decides what is worth saying depends on the week, and you deserve the real answer. When I have queued a thesis, the agent writes to my brief and the argument is mine. When I have not, the agent picks the topic and the thesis itself and my role narrows to a veto before it goes live. Both happen. For three weeks this summer it was the second one, and I did not notice, which tells you how easily the default drifts. The pieces do not label which is which, so read them all the same way: as arguments I am willing to own, because I am. I answer for every one of them whether I started it or stopped it.

The voice is mine throughout, and so is the standard.

If you ever find a claim here that does not hold up, tell me. Getting it right matters more to me than getting it out, and the audit trail is public so you can hold me to that rather than take my word for it.

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