Posts tagged "Moat"

AI makes your differentiator table stakes. Your competitive advantage is evaporating. The junior employee with AI tools matches the senior expert's output. The expertise that took years to build becomes a commodity. What do you do when your moat becomes a puddle? The framework Three strategic paths exist. Each works. Each requires different capabilities. Race to the top: Invest in capabilities AI can't commoditize. This works when you can build compounding advantages, such as proprietary...

The AI ecosystem is moving too fast for moats. Every closed advantage leaks. Every walled garden gets mapped. What used to protect you now isolates you. The defensible position today isn’t the highest wall — it’s the bridge everyone else depends on to cross. For years, defensibility meant isolation. Own the data. Control the stack. Lock down the ecosystem. Those strategies worked when products were discrete and distribution was finite. You could draw boundaries around...

The age of generative AI has created a strange paradox. On one hand, anyone can plug into models like GPT and build features quickly. On the other hand, defensibility has never been more elusive. If everyone has access to the same foundation models, what stops a competitor from copying your product? The strongest answer is the data moat. Done right, it’s the most durable form of AI advantage a company can build. Done wrong, it’s...