ai June 24, 2026 4 min read
When Your Judgment Is the Product: Applied AI for Strategy and Policy Firms
For a strategy or policy firm, the asset isn't a process — it's the judgment of the people in the room. That makes "productize it so it scales" a dangerous instruction, because the obvious way to scale judgment is to dilute it. Applied AI offers a different path: scale everything around the judgment so the judgment itself can go further.
When the product is expertise and the moat is a community, scaling usually means diluting the very thing clients pay for. Here's how applied AI scales the work surrounding judgment without replacing it — and a two-day way to start.
Eli Wood
CEO, Black Flag Design