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.
Harvey Teardown: The Case for Verifiable Judgment
Legal work is not purely informational; it is an accountability system. Deconstructing how Harvey separates reasoning from judgment to build defensible AI workflows.
"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.