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A small lever on a fulcrum shifting a large interlocking structure of gears and girders
applied ai June 24, 2026 4 min read

After the Roadmap, Someone Has to Build the Road

System-change organizations are brilliant at convening the field and writing the roadmap. The next frontier is harder and more valuable: building the tools the roadmap calls for, with humans kept firmly at the center.

Intermediary organizations that facilitate adoption can do more than convene — they can build the applied-AI tools their own roadmaps point to, without losing the human-centered values that earned them trust.

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Eli Wood

CEO, Black Flag Design

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