Max Votek

When You Speed Up Code 100x, the Bottleneck Doesn’t Disappear. It Migrates.

And right now it’s migrating straight into the seams of every consulting firm and enterprise client I work with.

May 6 • Max Votek

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April 2026

Google Just Spent $750M to Settle the “AI Will Kill Consulting” Debate

For a year, every AI thread has circled the same prediction: agents will hollow out consulting.

Apr 29 • Max Votek

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The Six-Dollar Secret: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Will Look Nothing Like a Software Company

A deeper dive into Sequoia’s thesis and what it means for builders right now

Apr 8 • Max Votek

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The infrastructure layer nobody’s talking about. Why Cloudflare might be the default deploy target for AI-built software.

I’ve been deploying apps on Cloudflare for months.

Apr 3 • Max Votek

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OpenClaw as a Foundation for Vertical AI Agents.

And the regulated industries that adopt it first will have a serious competitive moat.

Apr 1 • Max Votek

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March 2026

How I replaced $2,000/month in SaaS with a $200 Claude Code subscription.

I built a personal CRM from scratch.

Mar 23 • Max Votek

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How to Actually Choose an AI Agent Platform

The decision framework, interoperability protocols, open-source alternatives, and industry-specific guidance for pharma, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Mar 19 • Max Votek

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The 5 Platforms Fighting for Enterprise AI Agents

Databricks, Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS, and Google all launched enterprise agent frameworks in rapid succession.

Mar 12 • Max Votek

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The Real NVIDIA Moat Has Nothing to Do With GPUs

I spent a month going deep on NVIDIA as a practitioner who builds AI workloads and as a shareholder. Here’s what I found.

Mar 10 • Max Votek

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Consulting Firms Spent $10 Billion on AI. Their Business Model Didn’t Change.

PwC, McKinsey, Deloitte - they’re all in.

Published on Max Votek • Mar 5

Consulting Firms Spent $10 Billion on AI. Their Business Model Didn’t Change.

PwC, McKinsey, Deloitte - they’re all in.

Mar 5 • Max Votek

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February 2026

I Self-Hosted an AI Agent Orchestrator. Here’s What I Learned About the Future

This weekend I set up OpenClaw in Docker on a small Linux box.

Feb 25 • Max Votek

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