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Tokenomics Will Wreck Your Margins: The AI Model Routing Workflow That Cuts Spend 50%

July 27, 2026

Tarun Raisoni built a data center company to roughly $400 million in trailing sales without taking a dollar of outside capital, sold it to a Fortune 500 for $217 million, then walked away from the boat and the fishing rod to start over. His answer for why is four words long: "exits are just a number."What he started instead is Gruve, and what he came on the show to argue is the most uncomfortable idea in enterprise AI right now.Here it is. In the cloud era, your data went somewhere ...

Tokens Go to Zero, Energy Goes to Zero: What Do You Build When Intelligence Is Free?

July 25, 2026

Every animal on earth runs on four drives. Humans have a fifth. The question is whether AI feeds it or buries it under a pile of chat windows.That is the cold open Ryan Estes is bringing to a Denver AI panel next Wednesday, and it is why this week's What It Do with Jason Katz, co-founder of Kindling Solutions, is bigger than a build in public check in.Ryan walks through his whole panel hosting playbook live, and the metaphor is a DJ booth. Five panelists are five tracks. You mix them, you...

$7,500 AI Team Replacing an Entire Growth Department

July 24, 2026

Your Website Is About to Become a Line ItemMatt Hassett spent seven years making byloftie.com beautiful.Now he is fairly sure that beauty is depreciating.Not because the design is bad. Because the customer is changing shape. Shopify says AI-driven traffic to its stores grew roughly 8x year over year in Q1 2026, with orders from AI search up nearly 13x. Loftie's post-purchase survey went from 1.5 percent AI attribution to 3 percent in six months. That is still small. That is also what smal...