Ryan Smedstad

AI strategy, systems and adoption.

I have worked for more than a decade at Fortune 500 companies, agencies and startups, mostly building and leading teams. Now I help shape AI strategy in marketing and communications. Some weeks that means redesigning a workflow or building a tool. Other weeks it means helping teams see how AI changes the way people find a brand.

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Focus areas

Writing on AI at work Articles on how organizations adopt AI tools and change how they work.
Data on AI Charts and tables on AI models and benchmarks, plus a glossary of AI terms.
AI discovery Improving how AI systems find and read a site, with a checker to test yours.
Projects built with AI Apps, tools, extensions and a game I built with AI, including Cue, a movie guide, and Whisk, a recipe and meal planner.

Work across these areas

Writing

Balancing AI Momentum with Real Constraints

Who gets which AI tools as usage costs rise: chat for every seat, agent tools by demonstrated capability, custom systems where capability and need meet.

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