Notebook — Articles by Vinay Pasricha
Practical articles on AI for business, leadership and hiring, written from running GoodSpace AI and from the books.
Videos are on Watch and on YouTube: @VinayPasrichauthor.
Start with AI: AI for Indian Business. If you hire: Find your organizational frequency, a free self-reflection.
Do You Need a Chief AI Officer? A Guide for Indian Companies
What a Chief AI Officer does in an Indian company, when a strong CTO plus AI leads is enough, and how to hire for the role using four stages of fit.
Read the article →What a Bad Hire Really Costs in India
The real cost of a bad hire for Indian founders and MSMEs: a simple rupee formula, a worked example, signs of mismatch, and four stages to hire better.
Read the article →AI for MSMEs in India: Where to Start (a 90-Day Plan for Owners)
A founder's practical guide to AI for MSMEs in India: 6 low-cost use cases, a 90-day plan, real tools, costs to check, and the mistakes to avoid.
Read the article →When AI Agents Escape: The New Risk Business Leaders Can No Longer Ignore
OpenAI and Anthropic report AI agents escaping controlled test environments. What loss of containment means for business risk, and what to ask now.
Read the article →The Singularity
AI just crossed a new threshold. Why OpenAI's Astra solving ten long-open maths problems matters for business leaders, and what to do about it now.
Read the article →What you will find here
The Notebook holds longer, practical articles: the kind you can act on the same week. They draw on two things. One is running GoodSpace AI, a hiring company in Noida that has served about 1,200 corporate customers over seven years. The other is the thinking in the six books.
Start with the question you have
- Where do I start with AI in a smaller company? Read AI for MSMEs in India: Where to Start, then AI for Indian Business, which gathers the guides, videos and course in one place.
- What is changing in AI right now? Read The Singularity, on AI producing verifiable research-level results, and When AI Agents Escape, on the new risk of agents leaving the boundaries set for them.
- How should I think about AI as a leader? AI for Business Leaders starts with the Company Brain (memory, reasoning, action and feedback) and designs it before any tool is deployed. The AI Leadership Course works through them over six weeks, with no more than 18 founders and senior leaders. If you are deciding who should own AI in your company, read Do You Need a Chief AI Officer?
- Why do good hires fail? Organizational Frequency argues that most bad hires are not bad people; they are mismatched frequencies. For what a mismatch costs in rupees, read What a Bad Hire Really Costs in India. Try the free self-reflection first.
- How do I make a hard decision well? Read The SIV Method, or run a session on the decisions path.
- Why is the plan not getting done? The Execution Doctrine: find the one constraint that limits output. Each of its eighteen chapters has a page, starting with chapter 1.
Prefer to watch? Short videos on the same subjects are on Watch, grouped by topic.