Revenant Research

The Pragmatist’s Guide To Navigating AI Narratives

How to Read the AI Supercycle When Every Narrative Is Simultaneously True

Nov 20 • 

Nathan Staffel

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September 2025

Systems & Signals — August 2025

Early Recovery Opens Capital, but Power and Compliance Decide Who Scales

Sep 1 • 

Nathan Staffel

July 2025

The Scabbard and the Sword

A Practical Rhetoric for the Age of AI

Jul 17 • 

Nathan Staffel

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We Taught Machines to Think Because We Forgot How

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jul 9 • 

Nathan Staffel

Alignment Is Not Structure

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jul 2 • 

Nathan Staffel

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June 2025

You Get The AI You Deserve

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jun 30 • 

Nathan Staffel

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The Discipline That Builds Freedom

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jun 27 • 

Nathan Staffel

The Illusion of Forgettable Systems

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jun 27 • 

Nathan Staffel

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Tyranny Depends on Inattention

Daily Field Guide on Systems Thinking in the Age of AI

Jun 25 • 

Nathan Staffel

When The Drums Go Silent

Benchmarks are saturated, models are cannibalizing, and alignment is killing utility. Architecting resilience is the new AI edge.

Jun 18 • 

Nathan Staffel

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April 2025

Introducing The AI Infrastructure Cycle

Revenant Research's framework for understanding AI Economics

Apr 21 • 

Nathan Staffel

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March 2025

Cheap Money Chases Cheap Ideas

The last two decades fueled an explosion of B2B SaaS companies, killed true productivity, and destroyed vast amounts of wealth.

Mar 12 • 

Nathan Staffel

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