Insight · AI & expertise
AI has made content production faster than ever. That should make genuine expertise more valuable, not less — if you know how to use it.
It's never been easier to produce content. A model can draft a paragraph, summarise a report, or turn a set of notes into something publishable in seconds.
For a while, that felt like it might flatten the value of expertise. If everyone can produce polished-sounding content, does deep knowledge still stand out?
We think the opposite is true.
AI can generate language. It can summarise. It can remix what already exists and reproduce patterns it has seen before. What it cannot do is replace judgement — the kind that comes from sitting inside difficult decisions, watching what actually happens after a recommendation is made, noticing what doesn't work, and slowly building the kind of taste that only comes from years in a field.
That's the part of expertise that doesn't compress well. And it's exactly the part that becomes more valuable as everything around it gets easier to produce.
Everything we publish may eventually become fuel for AI. That is a slightly uncomfortable thought.
We've thought about that. But the more we sat with it, the less it changed our view. AI can recombine what already exists. It cannot replace the years it took someone to learn what actually matters, or the specific judgement that comes from having made real decisions, in a real business, with real consequences.
Put simply: AI makes content cheaper. It makes real expertise more valuable.
That's why we think professional services firms and founders should be investing in the formats that let real expertise show through — interviews, podcasts, long-form writing, journals, thought leadership, video, proper editorial work. Not because more content is inherently good, but because this kind of content does something AI-generated content can't: it documents a specific person's judgement, at a specific point in time, formed by a specific set of experiences.
Content is not only distribution. It is documentation of expertise.
That's worth protecting — and worth publishing.