The Unsexy Plumbing: Why Your AI Workflow Drifts, Overclaims, and Blows Its Budget, and How to Engineer It Out
It's so easy to dump everything on your LLM of choice. Quick, easy, and on a small scale, genuinely impressive. Spin up a few agents, throw your data at a public model, and the demo looks great. Then you try to run it at production scale, and the bill arrives....
Mirren Live Recap: What Agency Leaders Are Talking About Right Now
At Mirren Live last month, Future Proof Advisors co-founder and CEO Terry Dry joined Lori Murphree of Evalla Advisors to chair a candid CEOs-only discussion on a question many agency leaders are working through right now: When does it make sense to build, partner, or...
Perceptual Maps, Revisited
One picture that shows where you sit and where you could go. An hour to make now, not a week. A perceptual map gives the other person a single image to grasp where you sit, who you're really competing with, and where the realistic gains are. That makes it useful any...
What Our Advisors Are Sharing: Why AI Agents Matter More Than Chatbots
If you are trying to make sense of where AI is headed next, this recent episode of The Next Big Idea offers an interesting perspective. Host Rufus Griscom talks with Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now Intelligent Internet, about what happens when AI moves...
Can AI Actually Find and Explain Your Company? Download Our AI Visibility Quick Check
More buying journeys now start with AI. Prospects are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to help them research vendors, compare options, and narrow the field before they ever visit a website or book a call. That changes the visibility game. It is no longer...
Don’t Let Your Money or Profits Limit Your Vision or Ambition
Don’t let your money or profits limit your vision or ambition. I said this recently in a conversation with one of our Future Proof Advisors member companies about funding an acquisition, and it hit harder in the room than I expected. Not because it was clever, but...
Terry Dry Talks AgeTech, Capital, and Real-World Adoption on the Verizon Stage at CES 2026
Future Proof Advisors CEO and co founder Terry Dry took the stage at CES 2026 in January for the session “AgeTech Innovation: Connecting Capital, Design & Impact,” powered by Verizon. Hosted on the Accessibility Stage at the Venetian Expo, the panel brought...
Grateful for a Successful 2025, Moving Into 2026 with Momentum
Happy New Year from Future Proof Advisors! As we look back on 2025, we are feeling very grateful. Thank you to our member companies, advisors, and partners for the trust, collaboration, and progress we shared this year. Looking Back at 2025 This past year was a strong...
The Critical Role Of The Human Experience In The Age Of AI
This is a guest blog post from Brian Cohen, Managing Partner at Hearthstone Venture Group and Future Proof Advisor Finally… We have arrived in the age of working smarter, not harder. AI has made it possible. It has reshaped what work looks like in the modern-day...