Stansbury Intelligence

Field notes on the economics of reinvention.

Writing for operators who intend to lead the shift rather than react to it — on operating models, the economics of change, and redesigning how the work gets done.

FeaturedEssay — Workflow redesign

Stop automating bad processes.

Automating a broken workflow only makes it fail faster. The larger prize is redesigning the work itself.

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Brief — The economics of change
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Why most pilots never produce ROI.
Pilots fail for economic reasons, not technical ones. The fix is choosing problems whose value survives the P&L.
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Essay — Operating models
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The $100M company with 50 people.
What real operating leverage looks like in the mid-market — and why headcount stopped being the measure of capacity.
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