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richard ewing

Founder, Exogram.ai | The Product Economist. I stop B2B SaaS AI from destroying gross margins.

How to Prevent Context Loss in AI Applications

Aug 7, 2026

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2 min read

How to Prevent Context Loss in AI Applications

Architecture, Schemas, and Lessons from Exogram.ai

richard ewing
richard ewing
How to Protect Production Databases from Unauthorized AI Agent Actions

Jul 31, 2026

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2 min read

How to Protect Production Databases from Unauthorized AI Agent Actions

Inside the 3-Gate Security Architecture

richard ewing
richard ewing
The Architecture of Runtime Governance

Jul 24, 2026

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3 min read

The Architecture of Runtime Governance

Why Prompt Engineering is a Structural Liability

richard ewing
richard ewing
Success is breaking our software economics.

May 20, 2026

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2 min read

Success is breaking our software economics.

richard ewing
richard ewing
AI Is Creating an Operational Debt Crisis Most Companies Still Misunderstand

May 15, 2026

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2 min read

AI Is Creating an Operational Debt Crisis Most Companies Still Misunderstand

richard ewing
richard ewing
I Built Exogram Because AI Agents Were Failing Like Unsupervised Infrastructure

May 12, 2026

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2 min read

I Built Exogram Because AI Agents Were Failing Like Unsupervised Infrastructure

richard ewing
richard ewing
Your Claude-powered search tool has zero adoption because prompting creates more work than it eliminates

May 6, 2026

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4 min read

Your Claude-powered search tool has zero adoption because prompting creates more work than it eliminates

richard ewing
richard ewing
Your AI System Has a Burn Rate

May 2, 2026

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2 min read

Your AI System Has a Burn Rate

And you are not measuring it correctly

richard ewing
richard ewing
Why the architecture for autonomous AI is fundamentally broken

Apr 29, 2026

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1 min read

Why the architecture for autonomous AI is fundamentally broken

The Deterministic Control Plane: Architecting Accountability in the Agentic Era

richard ewing
richard ewing
Why your best AI customers are quietly bankrupting you.

Apr 24, 2026

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1 min read

Why your best AI customers are quietly bankrupting you.

richard ewing
richard ewing
The R&D Ponzi Scheme: Why hiring more engineers is financial malpractice.

Apr 17, 2026

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1 min read

The R&D Ponzi Scheme: Why hiring more engineers is financial malpractice.

richard ewing
richard ewing
The innovation tax audit

Apr 11, 2026

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1 min read

The innovation tax audit

Why real innovation requires deleting code

richard ewing
richard ewing

Agile Product Management

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The Subprime Code Crisis

Mar 4, 2026

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1 min read

The Subprime Code Crisis

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richard ewing
The Product P&L Test: Why your AI feature is bleeding cash

Feb 25, 2026

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1 min read

The Product P&L Test: Why your AI feature is bleeding cash

richard ewing
richard ewing
What a Product Economist Actually Does

Feb 2, 2026

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1 min read

What a Product Economist Actually Does

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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Your career is leaking $42,000 a year.

Dec 11, 2025

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3 min read

Your career is leaking $42,000 a year.

We talk about P&L management for our products, but we ignore the P&L of our own careers.

richard ewing
richard ewing
The Senior PM Trap: You Are Stuck Because You Are Financially Illiterate

Dec 10, 2025

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3 min read

The Senior PM Trap: You Are Stuck Because You Are Financially Illiterate

I see it on every resume.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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The Resume is Dead. Long Live the "Win Locker."

Dec 9, 2025

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5 min read

The Resume is Dead. Long Live the "Win Locker."

Why I am building an Agentic OS to match your "Wins" to Market Arbitrage. I am building the last career tool you will ever need.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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The Real-World MBA for Product Leaders.

Nov 25, 2025

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3 min read

The Real-World MBA for Product Leaders.

Why I am pivoting this newsletter to teach the financial mechanics of $25M ARR scale.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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The AI Revolution Isn’t Technical. It’s a Financial Leadership Test.

Nov 24, 2025

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5 min read

The AI Revolution Isn’t Technical. It’s a Financial Leadership Test.

Stop chasing chatbots. Start building the $25M strategic lever your leadership team actually needs.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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Your AI strategy is burning cash because you treated it like a feature.

Nov 21, 2025

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3 min read

Your AI strategy is burning cash because you treated it like a feature.

AI is not a feature.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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I reject 90% of inbound requests.

Nov 20, 2025

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3 min read

I reject 90% of inbound requests.

It is the only way to survive.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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Stop showing your CEO a roadmap.

Nov 19, 2025

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3 min read

Stop showing your CEO a roadmap.

Show them a P&L.

richard ewing
richard ewing

#AI

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The MVP vs. MLP Mindset

Nov 17, 2025

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2 min read

The MVP vs. MLP Mindset

I tell my PMs to stop chasing the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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richard ewing

#AI

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The North Star Lie

Nov 14, 2025

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2 min read

The North Star Lie

The simple truth

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richard ewing
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