On Technology & AI

Tech Optimists

Our clients deserve solutions that are thoughtful, efficient, and grounded in reality—not technology for technology's sake. That means we explore new tools enthusiastically, evaluate them critically, and integrate them thoughtfully.

Our Approach

Our AI philosophy, in practice

From the moment generative AI began reshaping creative and knowledge work, we chose to engage with it directly: testing tools, refining workflows, studying limitations, and helping clients think realistically about what these technologies can and cannot do.

After thousands of hours using a wide range of tools, we're not neutral on AI: We believe it has the potential to unlock human capability in ways we're only beginning to understand. Every good worker we know has more to do than they can ever finish — and if AI gives people the capacity to finally get to the next thing, we believe there's a good case for optimism.

But we're also clear-eyed about the risks. We monitor the constantly-evolving landscape to note how AI is changing our work and our world, and we use these tools with checks in place, healthy skepticism, and a firm commitment to serving people, not replacing them.

Our team uses AI to accelerate research, reduce administrative friction, explore ideas faster, and create more capacity for high-value human work. But judgment, taste, empathy, and strategic thinking still belong to people — and always will. Every deliverable we produce is guided by human expertise, reviewed with care, and shaped around the people it's meant to serve.

Why we're optimistic

Productivity Lift

40%

Of working hours could be augmented by generative AI

McKinsey estimates that 60–70% of activities employees do today have automation potential thanks to generative AI — freeing roughly 40% of working hours for higher-value work.

Source · McKinsey Global Institute, 2023

Hours Back

+11hrs / wk

The average knowledge worker reclaims with AI assistance

Microsoft's 2024 Work Trend Index found Copilot users save an average of 11 hours per week — a full workday and a half — on writing, summarization, and information-finding.

Source · Microsoft & LinkedIn Work Trend Index, 2024

The Adoption Gap

3.0×

Companies that train on AI outperform those that don't

Organizations with structured AI upskilling programs are roughly 3× more likely to report measurable productivity gains than those rolling out tools without training.

Source · BCG, AI at Work, 2024

Upskilling Mandate

44%

Of workers' core skills will need reskilling by 2027

The World Economic Forum projects that nearly half of all skills currently used in the workplace will be disrupted within five years — a generational opportunity for organizations that move first on training.

Source · World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs, 2023

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