Product Teardowns: Engineering Trust at Scale
Deep dives into the architectures, incentives, and failure modes of the world's most significant AI surfaces.
OpenAI Teardown: ChatGPT as Platform vs Product Surface
The interface, not the model, is the control point. A deep dive into the neutrality tax, cognitive load at scale, and why OpenAI is winning the strategic position while increasing product risk.
Perplexity Teardown: The Search for Verification
AI answers are easy. Answers you can trust are engineered. How Perplexity AI optimizes for speed you can check, turning citations from a feature into a requirement.
"Deconstructing the control planes of modern AI"
The Product Teardown track analyzes how technical architectures shape user behavior and business moats in the age of AI.