Field notes
Longer essays from building Lucy in public.
Deeper dives on strategic alignment, trust, AI maturity and the frameworks behind the coach. For the short, visual version of the same ideas, start with the article series.
The Alignment Problem No One's Talking About
How AI quietly rewrites your strategy, and the system that stops it before it compounds.
ReadOperating beliefs · 7 min readTrust → Personal value → Adoption → Capability → Scale
The five stages of behavior change with AI. Why every other order fails.
ReadCapability stage · 9 min readUniversal AI skills are the leverage point most rollouts skip.
Why roughly 70% of AI's value at work comes from universal skills people build through practice, not from the model, and why most rollouts chase the demo instead.
ReadFounder perspective · 5 min readPredicting the Future
People are bad at exponentials. Not a little bad: really bad. And it's quietly shaping every conversation about what AI will do to your business.
ReadArchitecture · 15 min readBuilding Trust in AI/Human Collaboration
A reference architecture from the trenches of an AI-native company. Large language model (LLM) behavior is probabilistic. Governance must be deterministic.
ReadQuestions
Questions about the field notes
What does Lucy Labs write about?
What we’ve learned building Lucy and running Lucy Labs with AI: keeping AI output true to your strategy, the order in which people adopt AI, the universal skills that matter most, why exponential change is hard to plan for, and how we govern the AI agents that help run Lucy Labs. Work-in-progress thinking from the people building Lucy.
How often does Lucy Labs publish?
We don’t write to a content calendar. We publish when we have something specific to say.
Are the field notes in Spanish too?
Yes. Every field note has a Spanish version. Switch the language at the top of any page, or start at /es/blog.html.
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What’s here today vs. what’s coming
Some features described on this site, like proactive coaching, are still being built.
