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Decision and Context Systems for AI
At lyr3 I write about building practical intelligence into organizations — where strategy meets AI, and insight replaces noise. In my work with CEOs and leadership teams, I explore how small, well-designed systems can make organizations sharper, decisions clearer, and technology more understandable and genuinely effective.

NEWS: MCP Continues Reach Growth - Sept 9
MCP continues to expand its reach across enterprise and developer ecosystems, with new use cases, platform adoption, and benchmarks revealing both promise and challenges.

Do We Need Embeddable UIs in MCP?
Chat boxes have become the face of AI. We type, the AI replies, and when tools are connected through MCP (Model Context Protocol), the outputs are poured back into text. Clean, minimal plumbing.
But MCP-Universe, a benchmarking project, shows just how brittle that model is. Only about one-third of complex interactions succeed when the AI has to juggle multi-step orchestration entirely through chat. That raises a question: are we overloading the AI, and forcing the chat box to do too much?

MCPs: The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Games of Enterprise AI
When people hear “Model Context Protocol (MCP),” it sounds abstract and technical—like plumbing for AI systems. But if you strip it down, MCPs are really just goal-oriented choose-your-own-adventure games written for AI.

Making Excel AI Friendly
MDN (Markdown Notation) project defining a simple, AI-readable spec for representing tabular and contextual data for AI systems

Strategic decision feedback
An application that uses AI to provide critical feedback in go-to-market decisions.
Outcome: Startup concept, effective technology but could not resolve on GTM. Retired.
Don't Build AI Tools. Build With AI.
The real opportunity in the AI era isn't building AI tools, but creating AI-native companies that fundamentally rethink how value gets created and delivered.
AI in Regulated Contexts
Exploring how compliance, audit, and defensibility change when AI becomes part of the workflow.
Outcome: Developed AI tool to write compliance training scripts and documents.
Client Project

The Future of Proofreading: AI Consensus Systems
How combining multiple AI proofreaders with consensus-based decision making can achieve better results than either humans or AI alone.
Client Project