You’ve been saving the wrong thing. For the last three years, the voice AI story has been told as a transcription story. Record the call. Convert speech to text. Search it. Tag it. Maybe run some sentiment analysis on top. Bold words like “insights” get thrown around. Dashboards get built. Teams feel productive. None of … Read more
I’ll say it plainly: I think we’re beginning to see the end of the App Store. Not a gradual fade. Not an evolution. A slow-motion obsolescence, and most people building in the app economy haven’t looked up long enough to notice. The App Store’s Days Are Numbered Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the App Store, in … Read more
Back in the fall of 1974, I was tasked by Philadelphia Wings general manager Jack Bionda, one of the five greatest box lacrosse players of all time, and our director of player personnel, Ken Wood, to begin assembling information on every draft-eligible box and field lacrosse player in North America. I gathered stats books from … Read more
I came up in sports when the data was a stat line in the morning paper and the fan experience was a hot dog, a bad seat, and a prayer that your team didn’t blow a lead in the ninth. I worked marketing for four professional sports teams. I spent time at a sports licensee … Read more
Most industries talk about AI transformation in the future tense. Sports just moved it to the present tense. Two deals announced this week look like separate news items. They’re not. Together, they signal a structural inflection point that will separate the organizations that thrive in the next decade from the ones that scramble to catch … Read more
Major League Soccer announced its 2026 MLS Innovation Lab cohort last week. Five companies. Five focused bets across player performance, fan engagement, and media production. And almost every mainstream coverage angle missed the actual story. The story isn’t the companies. The story is the laboratory itself. What Was Actually Announced MLS selected five companies for … Read more
The invisible layer wins. Every billion-dollar sports business running today, streaming rights, fantasy platforms, betting exchanges, and performance analytics all run on APIs that most executives couldn’t name and most investors never audit. That’s the opportunity and the risk sitting in the same sentence. The Plumbing No One Talks About Is Now the Product Over … Read more
The Comunicano Sports Intelligence Scoreboard Somewhere between my third browser tab and my fourth coffee, I had the thought that has launched a thousand startups: there has to be a better way. Sports business news is everywhere. Front Office Sports. Sports Business Journal. Sportico. SportsPro. Stadium Tech Report. The Athletic. Adweek. Business Wire. PR Newswire. … Read more
Every so often, a new idea comes along that is not just a product feature or a cost-saving tweak, but a real architectural shift. Anthropic’s Advisor Strategy is one of those ideas. At its core, the concept is simple. You let a faster, lower-cost model do the routine work. When something complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes … Read more
Baseball has always been about the moments we can’t quite see. I’m not talking about the home runs or the diving catches—though those matter too. I’m talking about the invisible architecture of the game. The pitcher is reading the hitter. The catcher is calling the pitch. The split-second decisions that happen in the space between … Read more
