https://hatch-capital.com/blog Brian Hatcher on putting AI to work inside real companies. en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-right-brain-for-the-job https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-right-brain-for-the-job Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Stop paying frontier-model prices for work that only needs a workhorse. Arc 3: AI Engineering model routing AI costs open-source AI fine-tuning https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-loop-is-the-system https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-loop-is-the-system Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Agent work gets useful when the whole workflow can run again. Arc 3: AI Engineering loop engineering AI workflows customer support automation AI code review https://hatch-capital.com/blog/harness-engineering https://hatch-capital.com/blog/harness-engineering Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Bootstrap files decide what an agent wakes up knowing every turn. Arc 3: AI Engineering harness engineering AI agents Claude Code AI guardrails https://hatch-capital.com/blog/context-engineering https://hatch-capital.com/blog/context-engineering Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Build the room the AI works in so every prompt gets lighter. Arc 3: AI Engineering context engineering knowledge management source of truth https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-prompt-before-the-prompt https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-prompt-before-the-prompt Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Use AI to interview you before it writes the final prompt. Arc 3: AI Engineering meta-prompting prompt engineering https://hatch-capital.com/blog/prompt-engineering https://hatch-capital.com/blog/prompt-engineering Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher A good prompt tells the model the job, the sources, the risks, and where to stop. Arc 3: AI Engineering prompt engineering agent skills AI guardrails https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-system-around-the-model https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-system-around-the-model Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher A better model helps. A better feedback loop changes the next run. Arc 3: AI Engineering feedback loops AI engineering human review https://hatch-capital.com/blog/dont-single-source-your-agent https://hatch-capital.com/blog/dont-single-source-your-agent Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The Fable/Mythos shutdown is the cleanest example yet of why your agents, context, workflows, review gates, and receipts cannot live inside one AI stack. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack AI sovereignty vendor lock-in model routing AI stack https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-blockbuster-test https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-blockbuster-test Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher AI adoption is visible in the work, not the announcement. The Blockbuster Test asks whether your company is rebuilding how work moves, or decorating the old operating model with new tools. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack AI adoption business disruption AI workflows process documentation https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-new-software-stack https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-new-software-stack Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Do you need the dashboard, or the answer it provides? The new software stack is a workflow mapped across the right agentic tools. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack AI stack AI workflows dashboards source of truth https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-ai-tool-landscape https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-ai-tool-landscape Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher A practical map of agentic platforms: coding agents, closed personal agents, open personal-agent systems, open-source coding harnesses, and model-routing decisions. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack AI tools AI coding agents personal AI agents open-source AI https://hatch-capital.com/blog/what-is-an-agent-actually https://hatch-capital.com/blog/what-is-an-agent-actually Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher A practical definition of agents for operators: job, context, tools, rules, stop signs, proof, and repeatability. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack AI agents chatbots personal AI agents AI guardrails https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-agentic-tool-test https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-agentic-tool-test Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Your software either has a door for agents, or it is becoming a locked building on an automated street. Arc 2: The Agent-Ready Stack agent-ready software software evaluation APIs audit trails https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-real-measuring-stick https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-real-measuring-stick Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The real test is a calendar question: if you stopped working today, how long before you had to re-enter the rat race? AI can make people faster, but the better question is what the speed buys back. Arc 1: Orientation time freedom AI productivity vibe coding human judgment https://hatch-capital.com/blog/emotion-is-the-moat https://hatch-capital.com/blog/emotion-is-the-moat Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Unreasonable Hospitality used to be hard to scale. AI changes part of that math. Arc 1: Orientation customer experience personalization hospitality competitive advantage https://hatch-capital.com/blog/specified-intelligence https://hatch-capital.com/blog/specified-intelligence Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The newest model is not always the right model. The task decides what intelligence matters. Arc 1: Orientation jagged intelligence model routing AI costs AI benchmarks https://hatch-capital.com/blog/trust-but-verify https://hatch-capital.com/blog/trust-but-verify Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher You do not believe everything you see on the internet. So why believe everything that comes out of AI? Arc 1: Orientation AI output verification source of truth human judgment https://hatch-capital.com/blog/know-which-lane-youre-in https://hatch-capital.com/blog/know-which-lane-youre-in Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The org chart is starting to move. AI is compressing old handoffs, and companies are already rebuilding roles around it. Arc 1: Orientation future of work organizational design career strategy https://hatch-capital.com/blog/ai-lies-when-you-do-not-give-it-an-out https://hatch-capital.com/blog/ai-lies-when-you-do-not-give-it-an-out Mon, 18 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Hallucinations are often system-design failures. The fix starts by giving AI permission to stop, then building that rule into the architecture. Arc 1: Orientation AI hallucinations AI guardrails human review AI sovereignty https://hatch-capital.com/blog/jobs-arent-going-away-theyre-changing-shape-again https://hatch-capital.com/blog/jobs-arent-going-away-theyre-changing-shape-again Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The internet era changed the shape of work once. AI is doing it again. We are in the compression point between the old way of working and the agentic era. Arc 1: Orientation future of work AI adoption AI workflows https://hatch-capital.com/blog/you-are-the-bottleneck https://hatch-capital.com/blog/you-are-the-bottleneck Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Why you’re now the slowest piece in your workflow. Arc 1: Orientation human judgment AI delegation future of work https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-model-doesnt-matter https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-model-doesnt-matter Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher The model is the engine. The workflow is the machine. Arc 1: Orientation AI workflows model routing AI agents https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-agentic-internet https://hatch-capital.com/blog/the-agentic-internet Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Your agent does not care about your homepage. It cares whether your business can be read by software. Arc 1: Orientation agentic web agentic commerce AI agents agent-ready software https://hatch-capital.com/blog/dont-marry-claude https://hatch-capital.com/blog/dont-marry-claude Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher As I am writing this, GPT 5.5, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek Pro v4 are all in the running. The leaderboard shifts constantly. The job isn't picking the right AI. It's making sure no AI picks you. Arc 1: Orientation vendor lock-in AI sovereignty Claude data portability https://hatch-capital.com/blog/welcome-to-the-new-world https://hatch-capital.com/blog/welcome-to-the-new-world Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Brian Hatcher Someone at Netflix used to burn CDs for a living. Then streaming happened, and the job did not just disappear — the world underneath it changed. Arc 1: Orientation future of work business disruption