Fifteen Guests and a Wallflower
Design the occasion a room has to survive, and let the people in it score the plan.
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Digital Twins
Machine-readable reality: world models, spatial AI and vision-language systems, and the floors, shelves and buildings run from them.
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The Organisation Decides With Less Than It Knows
Institutional memory leaves when experts do. PROXY turns tacit judgement into queryable agents, advisory councils, and an immutable ledger.
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Small to Big
Why BIM cannot compose: moving the built environment from locked CAD files to executable spatial contracts.
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Your Pick Data Cannot See the Floor
Why warehouse pick timestamps fail to explain fulfillment bottlenecks without a spatial model of the physical floor.
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From Spatial Dashboards to Municipal Execution: What Smart Cities Become in the Agentic Era
Decades into the smart city experiment, AI is shifting urban technology from watching reality to participating in it.
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Spec to Site
The internet was written by hand until it wasn't. The built world is next, and the scarce thing at the far end of that shift is not drawing.
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World Models Have to Beat an Agent with Blender
The falling cost of editable 3D is changing the benchmark for generative worlds.
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When BIM Becomes Invisible
World models, digital twins, and the redesign of how the built world is conceived, coordinated, and operated.
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The Irreplaceable Man
Physical AI is arriving faster than the infrastructure that carries it. Small businesses are where those two facts collide.
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Anticipation and Memory: The Hidden Value in Hospitality
Why the two most valuable phases of independent hospitality happen before arrival and after departure.
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The World Is Not a Table
Why digital twins in India are about spatial resolution and physical decisions, not 3D dashboards
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Beyond the Bounding Box
Reality capture is no longer the bottleneck. VLMs convert physical space into natural language, turning camera feeds into queryable world models.
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Ways of Seeing, Ways of Naming
John Berger, Wittgenstein, and the vision-language state.
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India’s AI Problem Is a Data Problem
Before AI can predict or automate, it has to answer deceptively basic questions about where things are and what they correspond to.
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The Abstract Machine
Why we stopped writing solvers and started writing the thing that writes them
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The Plural Shelf
Consumer decision trees model an averaged shopper who does not exist, and function alone has stopped being sufficient to sell
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The Volume Asymmetry of Physical AI
Why physical intelligence requires capex substitution, edge perception, and owning the unrecorded state of space over time.
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3D Was Never an Interface
Why the spatial turn in artificial intelligence is a data argument, not a display argument
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Machine-readable, then machine-run
Why physical retail must become a digital substrate before agentic AI can run it.
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AI Decentralization Ends at Your Dinner Table
The intelligence race pushes AI onto owned hardware, then onto your body. A three-to-four-year chain, told as a story.