The 81 Collection

Aug 28, 2026

Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck

The intelligence is free. Everything around it is not.

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Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck

Our CTO, Jordan Fulghum, on why the hard part of AI inside a real business is no longer the model.

The intelligence is here and it is basically free. What is missing is everything around it: access to the inbox, the CRM, the ERP, and the 36-tab spreadsheet that somehow runs the company — plus the permission to act on any of it, and the trust of the person whose job it is meant to make easier.

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