Writing by Jonathan Blessing

17 essays on AI, software, and design service-provider selection from the buyer side.

  1. AI-Native Apps Will Swallow the Web: Why we're publishing eight new MCP guides

    AI-native apps are becoming the new web, with MCP as the next HTML. Why we're publishing eight new guides for product leaders entering this category.

  2. The Future Is Agents: Agent-Centric Design

    For decades, software was designed for humans. Agents are about to displace them as the primary user. The new design discipline: agent-centric design.

  3. Where There is Smoke

    Crypto's structural security crisis was in hand before Mythos. AI-enabled fraud surged 450%; stolen funds hit $3.4 billion. Gradually, then suddenly.

  4. Every Day is Y2K

    Mythos-class AI surfaces thousands of zero-days with no sign of slowing. There is no deadline, no midnight. This is not a crisis. It is a climate.

  5. Claude Mythos is Where Crypto Ends

    Near-chain exploits in browsers, operating systems, and wallets will enable irreversible crypto theft at scale. Mythos just proved how many doors are unlocked.

  6. How to Evaluate Technology Partner Proposals

    How to evaluate technology partner proposals beyond pitch decks – team composition, methodology specificity, reference quality, and incentive alignment.

  7. Why RFPs Fail for Technology Partner Selection

    Why RFPs fail for technology partner selection: the process was built for commodity procurement and systematically excludes your best-fit partners.

  8. Why Technology Partner Selection Fails

    Why technology partner selection fails has less to do with vendor quality and more to do with treating capability decisions like commodity procurement.

  9. India's $315B AI Survival Thesis

    The Economist says AI hasn't disrupted Indian IT outsourcing. The analysis isn't wrong – but it mistakes a lagging scorecard for a forward indicator.

  10. Why Enterprise Vendor Selection Is Structurally Imbalanced

    Enterprise vendor selection is framed as a competence question. But engagements rarely fail for lack of talent – they fail for lack of incentive awareness.

  11. Faster Than You Think: Part 3: Instant Dashboard

    Cloudflare's analytics dashboards are a 747 flight deck. We needed a Honda Civic dashboard. Claude built it in hours.

  12. Faster Than You Think: Part 2: Be the Asteroid

    This website went from six weeks of agency back-and-forth to production in one evening with Claude. A case in point for the asteroid thesis.

  13. Faster Than You Think: AI Will Hit Like an Asteroid

    Every major technology followed the same arc: big promise, slow delivery. AI will move differently – because of where it's injected into the enterprise.

  14. Vendors Under AI Pressure

    AI is compressing development costs – and reshaping the economics of the firms delivering the work. For buyers, that pressure creates execution risk.

  15. No Consent Required: Privacy = Trust

    No tracking, no ad audiences, no behavioral data harvesting. Launch Day Advisors built its privacy posture on a simple belief: privacy is trust.

  16. Why We Founded Launch Day Advisors: Too Many Vendors

    The market for design, development, and AI services looks healthy from the outside. Supply is not the problem. Signal is.

  17. When Every Agency Has Five Stars, Reviews Are Broken

    If every agency is five stars, then five stars mean nothing. In a market where positivity is engineered, visible differentiation collapses.
Get Started

Start a Conversation

15 minutes with an advisor. No pitch, no pressure.
We'll help you figure out what you actually need.

Talk to an Advisor