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Why growth strategy restarts from scratch every quarter
The reasoning behind a growth decision usually lives in a deck and in one person's head. When the quarter turns or the person leaves, the next cycle starts near zero. Here is what changes that.
David Isaac
5 days ago4 min read


Your budget is your growth strategy, with the key decisions hidden
The annual budget is where growth strategy is actually decided. Every line funds one path and prices none of the alternatives. Here is the evidence a CEO should have before it locks.
David Isaac
5 days ago4 min read


The opportunity cost and payoff of the growth option you did not pick
Every funded initiative gets a budget, a forecast and a review. The option ranked second gets none of them, so its value enters the plan as zero. Here is how to find out what it would have returned.
David Isaac
Sep 15 min read


AIPath Newsroom: Awards, Coverage and Milestones
AIPath won the inaugural AI Agents Global Challenge, one of four winners from a USD 1 million pool. The awards, the coverage, the results in market, and how a consultancy became AIPath.
David Isaac
Aug 205 min read


How to Decide What to Build Before the Budget Is Gone
Most teams do not build badly; they build the wrong thing well and learn it two quarters too late. How to map the option space, rank it by the growth lever that matters at your stage, and pre-test the strongest option in market before the budget commits.
David Isaac
Jul 204 min read


Can ChatGPT Do Growth Strategy?
ChatGPT frames growth strategy well and stops short of deciding it. Where a general model stops, what separates an answer from a decision a board can fund, and which job each tool is genuinely built for.
David Isaac
Jul 187 min read


The Importance of Clarity in MVP Development for Startups
For years, startups have been told to build an MVP and fail fast. This advice has helped many founders avoid spending years on products that nobody wanted. It’s a stark reality that 90% of startups fail, including those that are well-funded. Customer journey mapping and experimentation, such as A/B testing (preferably multivariate), are two critical elements that the most successful and rapidly evolving startup teams consistently practice. However, most startup accelerators l
David Isaac
Mar 65 min read


AIPath at Innolead Impact, Boston; Unpacking Growth & Innovation
AIPath will be presenting our compound decision intelligence platform for growth strategy. This platform for CEO's visualization, instead simulating potential strategic outcomes, allowing organizations to rank which growth paths will achieve growth & product-market fit fastest and most efficiently.
David Isaac
Oct 20, 20252 min read


AI Chat: Transforming Strategy into Decision-Grade Evidence
AI Chat wasn't designed to make strategy visible and editable. Teams need simulation & user testing to turn opinions into operating plans. Here's the playbook.
David Isaac
Aug 28, 20258 min read


You’re not yet ready for the ‘Do More With Less’ conversation without validating & simulating your go-to-market priorities.
Half-funded priorities are where strategy goes to die. You have a short window right now to avoid another year of misaligned priorities and exhausted teams.
Better planning still leaves you with the same problem: once the year starts, you’re locked into decisions made months earlier.
David Isaac
Aug 14, 20255 min read
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