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No. 001May 2026

The flagship paper

Pilot Purgatory

The mispriced variable is not the model. It is the rate at which organizations change what they do.

AI is the first technology in a generation with the leverage to break the West's long stagnation outside of bits. That break only happens if AI is deployed in the operating businesses that make up the public market. Too often it is not.

Companies announce pilots and generate headlines, yet their audited statements show little movement in labor leverage, gross margin, or SG&A productivity. The distance between what management claims and what the statements show is an organizational problem before it is a technical one. It is where Sargasso invests.

The full diagnostics, case studies, Constructivist Playbook and forward scenarios are set out in Pilot Purgatory, published May 2026.

Read Pilot Purgatory

  1. 12Jensen Says the Market Misunderstands Nvidia’s Demand
  2. 11Millions Watched Zuckerberg Sip a Guinness. Nobody Heard What He Said Next.
  3. 10Da Vinci Would Have Built AI With Musk
  4. 09AI Oversight Is the Next Board Liability
  5. 08What Michael Milken Would See in AI Chip Financing
  6. 07Who Keeps the Money When AI Rewrites Bank Code?
  7. 06Peter Thiel Prefers Goethe’s Faust
  8. 05What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI Capex
  9. 04Distillate, Not Crude
  10. 03The Soft Antichrist of the AI Age
  11. 02Palm Pilot Purgatory
  12. 01The Board Gap

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