How should organizations operate when intelligence is no longer the scarce resource?
Project Intent is a body of work exploring what happens when execution becomes abundant — and why the organizations optimized for yesterday's constraints are now their own biggest obstacle.
The Book Read Decision LatencyOptimized for Yesterday
In large enterprises, value-stream analyses consistently reveal the same pattern: the actual work takes days, but the elapsed time takes months. Eighty-five percent of the timeline isn't building. It's aligning, reviewing, and waiting for permission.
The problem isn't your people. It's your operating system.
Optimized for Yesterday explains why enterprises that move at the speed of software internally remain motionless in the market — and provides a concrete framework for leaders ready to close the gap between intent and evidence.
Core Ideas
- Decision Latency
- The time an organization spends increasing confidence after it already possesses enough information to begin learning through execution.
- The Scarcity Shift
- Execution was once scarce and expensive. Now it's abundant. The constraint has moved to human judgment velocity.
- Bounded Governance
- Control maintained by system-enforced perimeters rather than human permission loops.
- Capacity Funding
- Funding stable execution engines rather than speculative roadmaps.
- The Evidence Loop
- Governing through unvarnished production telemetry rather than aggregated status reports.
- The Amplified Sovereign
- The economics of the individual amplified by intelligence, operating autonomously within automated gates.
Working Papers
The ideas behind the book were developed through a series of working papers. Public editions are available to read.
Decision Latency
The limiting factor in software organizations is shifting from implementation capacity to organizational decision-making.
The Economics of Expertise
Agile organized work around teams because expertise was distributed. Project Intent organizes work around accountable individuals amplified by intelligence.
Intent Before Implementation
As implementation becomes abundant, intent — not plans — becomes the enduring organizational artifact.
The OrgOS Framework
A practical operating architecture for enterprises transitioning from coordination to velocity. The blueprint is detailed in the appendix of Optimized for Yesterday.
Implementation guides and self-assessment tools are in development.
Planning produces predictions. Execution produces evidence.