I help mid-market leaders turn AI activity into P&L movement — closing the Logic Leaks between data and decisions.https://jitinkapila.com/enhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/who-should-explore-ai-tools/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/who-should-explore-ai-tools/Hand every new AI tool to everyone and your team gets distracted, not innovative. This post gives you a simple rule for who should actually do the exploring, and how to structure it, so curiosity produces operating memory instead of chaos.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaBusinessAI AdoptionAI ToolsTeam DesignWorkflow Designhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-tool-tourism/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-tool-tourism/Jumping to every new AI tool is a dopamine loop, not a strategy. And if the pressure to adopt every new AI tool keeps fragmenting your workflow and your budget, this post gives you a filter. We talk about the three conditions that actually justify a switch, so you can stop tool-hopping and protect the system that already works.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaBusinessAI ToolsProductivityBusiness StrategyWorkflow Designhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/before-buying-ai-tool-6-questions/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/before-buying-ai-tool-6-questions/Most companies buy an AI tool, run a POC, and still get no value, because they bought a demo before understanding the work behind it. This post gives you a 6-question buying scorecard, covering data, output, governance, ROI, upgrade path, and ownership, so you can tell a real capability from uncertainty with a better demo.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaFrameworkAI StrategyAI ROIVendor evaluationAI Governancehttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-confusion-tax/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-confusion-tax/Companies routinely overpay up to 12x by defaulting to GenAI for problems that classical ML solves faster and cheaper. This post shows you the three patterns that cause it and the one question to ask before you sign, so you stop paying the confusion tax.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaStrategyGenAIClassical MLAI ROIVendor evaluationhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-strategic-skills/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-strategic-skills/You own the Pain and the Destination; the technical team owns the Steps. The one skill a leader can't delegate is the delivery of value — translating model metrics into dollars and reshaping the process that uses them.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaStrategyExecutive AIAI LeadershipAI Profit OSStrategyhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/genai-is-plier/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/genai-is-plier/GenAI is a pair of pliers — excellent for language tasks, useless for math, optimization, or network problems. A real strategy starts with the decision, then reaches for the right tool from the full toolbox.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaFrameworkGenAITool SelectionAI StrategyFrameworkshttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/why-ai-projects-fail/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/why-ai-projects-fail/Most AI projects fail before any code is written — born from Pressure, FOMO, or Anxiety instead of a named, quantified business pain. Fix the definitions and put a dollar value on the problem first; the model is the easy part.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaStrategyAI StrategyAI ROIProject diagnosticsLeadershiphttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/decision-first-ai/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/decision-first-ai/Don't open a notebook until you know the decision you want to change. Map the decision first, then pick the simplest data and model that improve it — that's the difference between applause-getting demos and systems that actually get used.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaStrategyDecision-First AIDecision MapML StrategyROIhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-umbrella/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/ai-umbrella/GenAI is just 8.6% of the AI toolbox; traditional ML and optimization quietly deliver most of the ROI. Map your problem to the right pillar of the AI Umbrella before chasing the hype.Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaFrameworkAI UmbrellaMachine LearningOptimizationGenAIhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/treeknn/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/treeknn/Discover TrieKNN, a novel approach to extend the K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm to datasets with both categorical and numerical features. Learn how it works, see it in action, and explore its potential.Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaEngineeringhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/crosstab_sparsity_classification/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/crosstab_sparsity_classification/Can our metric help us in making a classification problem work better ?Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaEngineeringhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/crosstab_sparsity/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/crosstab_sparsity/A label and data type agnostic metric for evaluating clustering performance!Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaEngineeringhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/hypothesis_test/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/hypothesis_test/Making life easy to do some serious hypothesis testing in python.Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaEngineeringhttps://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/adaptive_regression/https://jitinkapila.com/writing/engineering/adaptive_regression/Adaptive RegressionTue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 GMTJitin KapilaEngineering