Elemental Insights
Insights on AI strategy, digital transformation, and enterprise technology
PlatformFebruary 26, 2026•6 min read
What We've Actually Built: A Progress Report on Cardinal Element's AI-Native Growth Platform
A candid account of the three systems powering Cardinal Element's AI-native advisory work: 7 executive agents with 18+ tool integrations, 49 coordination protocols across 8 categories, and a blind LLM-as-judge evaluation framework.
AI ResearchFebruary 23, 2026•Interactive
Skate Where the Puck Is Going
In honor of the US victory in Olympic Hockey, some inspiration to skate where the puck is going. Interactive METR data showing AI agent autonomous work horizons doubling every ~123 days through 2029.
AI ModelsAugust 10, 2025•3 min read
GPT-5: First Impressions
GPT-5 isn't magic or AGI, but it does provide tighter adherence, better voice, cleaner coding sandbox. An incremental step forward rather than a giant leap.
AI ModelsAugust 5, 2025•3 min read
Why Claude Opus 4.1
Core capability bumps coding accuracy on the industry-standard SWE-bench Verified to 74.5% (up from 72.5% in Opus 4) and shows measurable gains on multi-step reasoning and data-analysis tasks.
AI AnalysisJune 19, 2025•4 min read
What Gemini 2.5 says about ChatGPT
This is the output from Gemini Pro 2.5 on how Gemini 2.5 can analyze YouTube videos and why OpenAI o3 is less capable here. This speaks to a major data advantage Google has.
AI CreativityJune 13, 2025•5 min read
The Creative Power of AI - An Existential Use Case
The creative possibilities of AI continue to amaze me. What started as a simple meditation I had written became an immersive visual journey—all thanks to a carefully orchestrated workflow.
AI ToolsJune 10, 2025•8 min read
Veo-3 Experiment - Testing Prompts from Leading AI Platforms
In an effort to understand how to best create prompts for Google's new Veo-3 video model, I decided to have a bake off between leading AI Assistants.
No-Code AIMay 29, 2025•7 min read
AI Development Tools for Non-Coders (Vibe Code)
Here's my detailed assessment of the best tools for those who prefer to steer clear of IDEs and traditional coding environments.
Enterprise AIMay 6, 2025•5 min read
OpenAI - AI in the Enterprise
It's hard to separate hype from hard value in the current AI gold rush. I dug into OpenAI's latest AI in the Enterprise case-study compendium. Seven themes emerged.
AI StrategyJanuary 20, 2025•4 min read
Rapid 'Proto Personas' Using Generative AI
Imagine raising $50 million with just ten slides. Such is the power of storytelling. But what if we could amplify the storytelling craft with Generative AI?
ResearchJanuary 13, 2025•4 min read
Complex Contagion: Unveiling Network Dynamics in Social Behavior
Research on complex contagion has reshaped our perception of network behavior, revealing that the spread of transformative ideas is less about a single persuasive exposure.