Advocacy & deployment · 2026
The Builders’ Playbook
The Inversion says what is happening. This says what to do about it.
The working paper maps the option space and, on purpose, refuses to prescribe a form. The Playbook prescribes. It is the part that turns the diagnosis into something you can actually carry into a board meeting, a procurement contract, or a terminal: the case, the asks, and the field guide for keeping the compute layer contestable.
Two parts, two audiences, one direction. Read the one that fits where you’re standing.
- Part IThe Tenants’ KitThe case and the five asks, for capitalized firms that build on AI but rent the frontier. Why contestability is your commercial interest, not just the public’s good.
- Part IIBuilding Toward ContestabilityThe deployment field guide. Track A for a company with a budget, Track B for one person with a GPU. Build for exit, not for convenience.