They Don’t Know They’re Weapons
She sat across from him at a cafe table.
He had just been laid off. A senior director. A quiet heavyweight. Fifteen years in the game. Knew how to lead teams, fix broken systems, navigate chaos without breaking a sweat.
But now?
He was adrift.
No job title. No calendar full of meetings. No one asking for his opinion.
He said he was lost.
She said he was sitting on gold.
He didn’t know how to build a GPT. Didn’t know what to do with AI agents or how to create automations. He barely knew what ChatGPT was.
But he had something most people didn’t.
He had judgment.
He had experience.
He had pattern recognition.
He had the kind of scar tissue you only get from making real decisions with real consequences in real rooms.
And all of that?
Was exactly what she needed.
Because she wasn’t looking for hype.
She didn’t need another AI tool.
She needed someone who could see the entire chessboard.
Someone who could spot the flaw in her funnel before it cost her fifty thousand.
Someone who could look at a messy doc and turn it into a process.
Someone who had already done the hard things she was just now attempting.
He didn’t need to become a tech expert.
She already had that.
What she didn’t have was a mind like his.
This is the edge no one is talking about.
The pairing of tactical AI skill with executive-level judgment.
The founder who knows how to build systems teaming up with the operator who knows what actually works.
Together, they skip steps.
Together, they ignore competitors.
Together, they stop playing the old game and create a new one.
This is leapfrog season.
And the most powerful players?
Are still sitting at cafe tables.
Trying to figure out what to do next.
