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A series of papers on Additional Intelligence for senior operators — directors, executives, partners, heads of function. People carrying real load. Direct, exact, grounded. Not for IT, developers, or marketing.

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Consense: a word for the part of a mind we could never see — until now

In July 2026, Anthropic built the Jacobian lens (J-lens): an instrument that reads the hidden middle of a machine's mind — the thoughts it is poised to say but hasn't said. I've spent two decades making that same hidden layer visible in people. So I've given it a name — Consense — the place where a mind makes sense of things before it speaks.

This is an essay about what a machine just confirmed, and why it matters to anyone who has ever hoped to be understood.

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AI: Two Rivals, One Data Centre — and What That Says About Your AI Budget

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month to rent compute from its direct frontier rival — on terms Musk can revoke at six months’ notice. The deal makes a bigger argument visible: token cost is splitting three ways, hire-versus-deploy splits with it, and three of the biggest IPOs of the decade are about to put the token economy on every shareholder’s portfolio.

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