HB & MJ Partners

Selected Writing · Medium & Substack

The advantage that remains when everyone has the same tools.

Essays on AI, commercial intelligence, and how companies turn information into decisions.

01

When Every Seller Has the Same Tools

Shared tools turn public information into parity. Advantage stays with firms that preserve private experience, test confident answers, and learn from outcomes.

Aug 2026
02

Sales Never Built Its Information Function

Sales built funnels to move volume, not an information function to decide which accounts deserve costly attention. The better question is not how many, but which ones.

Jun 2026
03

The Quiet Problem of Control in Multi-Model Systems

The hardest work in a multi-model system happens between the boxes: retry, switch, stop, or escalate. Gates make those decisions visible and reviewable.

May 2026
04

The Illnesses of Large Language Models

Smooth conversation can make unreliable work look finished. Serious AI needs explicit procedure, with humans setting the standard rather than proofreading every answer.

Apr 2026
05

The Model Is Not the Knowledge Base

Fluent answers can hide weak evidence. Enterprise AI becomes defensible when models speak from governed sources the company can trace and defend.

Mar 2026