Stop Bolting On AI. Start Building With It.

Stop Bolting On AI. Start Building With It.

Most AI startups today follow a familiar pattern:

  1. Take an existing app.
  2. Add a chatbot.
  3. Call it “AI-powered.”

This is the bolt-on mentality — AI as frosting on the same old cake.

But real transformation doesn’t come from sprinkling in GPT-4. It comes from rethinking the entire workflow around what AI enables:

AI-native tools don’t just answer questions—they change the nature of the work:

The difference is night and day.

One gives you a chatbot that rewrites your email. The other makes it so you never needed to write the email at all.

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Hi, I'm Glenn! 👋

I'm a product builder and AI strategist focused on the future of work. I help executives and founders design AI-native tools that actually get used — especially in agent-based systems, increase executive productivity, and secure distributed workflows.

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