Operations Leadership
I'm Ben McEachen. I help founders and CEOs redesign their operations around what AI actually changes in their business. 28 years of hands-on experience, practitioner-level AI fluency, and a bias for building over advising.
Latest Thinking
The firms doing well right now are exploring the AI-changed future. The firms losing ground are retreating from it. The technology isn't the variable. The choice is.
The gap between AI capability and actual deployment is the biggest strategic variable for growing companies. The firms that treat it as breathing room will suffocate when it closes.
The system I'd build doesn't write motions. It gives the attorney three extra hours a day to write better ones.
My ten-year-old sat down with an AI agent, zero coding experience, and a problem he wanted to solve. Five hours later, he'd built a working chess game.
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I focus on what happens when AI changes the economics of an industry and what operations leaders need to do about it. If you're navigating the same territory, I'd like to hear what you're seeing.
Diagnose what AI changes about your economics, then redesign the processes around it.
Build the infrastructure that scales with your growth stage, not against it.
Systematize without creating bureaucracy. Documentation that people actually use.
Guiding operations through inflection points, leadership transitions, and scaling thresholds.