AI is not the future. It is the operating system of now.
I'm Anees Merchant. I build AI systems for Fortune 500 companies, write about what works, and help others do the same.
What I Do
Essays & Field Notes
Weekly blog on AI strategy, agentic systems, and the human side of automation. Grounded in real projects, not speculation.
Stages & Rooms
TEDx stages, corporate events, and universities. Practical AI, no hype. The kind of talk that changes how teams think about implementation.
Systems At Scale
AI platforms and agentic systems for enterprises. From concept to production. I have shipped systems that run at scale across Fortune 500 organizations.
From the Blog
The Missing Middle in AI Fluency: Why Founders Stall and Interns Skip Ahead
The missing middle in AI fluency is the skill of redesigning how a piece of work gets done before anyone builds anything for it. It sits between using AI to speed up one step and...
No Model Wins Every Stage: The Stage Map for an Enterprise Agent Stack
A model stack is the set of AI models a company assigns to the stages of an agent's work. A stack is worth building because one launch page can show a model leading one benchmark...
Why Your Team Hides Its AI Use, and Three Moves That Make It Sayable
AI stigma is the fear of being judged lazy or less capable for using AI at work. In a 2025 survey of more than 48,000 people, 57% of employees said they hide their AI use and...
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