Are We Living Through the Singularity Right Now? A Research Report on Current AI Convergence Dynamics

Exploring whether we're experiencing the technological singularity through current AI convergence dynamics and exponential technological change.

Three Futures, One AI: Understanding Kurzweil, Mostaque, and Geopolitical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

Explore three critical perspectives on AI's future: Kurzweil's singularity vision, Mostaque's economic transformation, and urgent geopolitical realities.

Why Death Won't Give Your Life Meaning (And What Will)

Discover why mortality no longer defines meaning and how human agency becomes the new foundation for purpose in an era of radical possibility.

The AI Illusion: Why It Seems Brilliant Until You Actually Know What You're Talking About

AI appears brilliant until you test it against real expertise. Discover why domain knowledge reveals AI's limitations and where the true opportunity lies.

I'm Listening to AI Music Non-Ironically Now (And I'm Not Sure How I Feel About That)

AI-generated music has crossed the quality threshold. Suno v5 creates professional-grade songs that 12 million users prefer over streaming services.

Introducing Pathforger: The Innovation Framework Powering Mindlace

Transform ideas into impact—faster, smarter, and with total confidence. What is Pathforger? Pathforger is Mindlace’s proprietary innovation and delivery framework, purpose-built to help ambitious organisations design, build, and launch standout digital products, AI-powered solutions, and breakthrough ventures. Whether you’re modernising core systems, launching a new product, or

How to Write Really Good Emails (that people will actually read!)

Emails are an extremely important way to communicate with clients, customers and fellow team members. They are a necessary means to convey information when stakeholders don’t require, or have time, for an in-person meeting or phone call. However, due to the transactional nature of emails typically, along with the

How to Take Effective Meeting Notes 🗒️

Clear and crisp written communication underpins any efficient business. So much valuable time can be wasted when written comms are sloppy, causing mixed messages, wrong-interpretations and action items to be forgotten. Every effective set of meeting notes will certainly have one thing in common: clarity. But, what exactly do we

How to Run a Meeting Effectively: The Mindlace Guide

Meetings are the lifeblood of any business. They are the forums where ideas are exchanged, solutions are crafted, and decisions are made. However, despite their importance, meetings are often undervalued and inefficiently conducted. That’s why, over the last 8 years, Rami has formulated his take on ‘how to run

What is a Rapid Prototype?

Intro Rapid prototyping is a crucial process in the product development lifecycle, offering a quick and cost-effective method to test and validate your product and startup ideas. This guide delves into the intricacies of rapid prototyping, its benefits, tools, and the process involved in creating them. When you’re innovating

How to Define Innovation: Fine-tune your Innovation Strategy with Mindlace

The world keeps getting faster. The pace of innovation is speeding up. If you don't keep up your company will be left behind and ultimately fail. But there's a solution. Part one of that solution is getting a comprehensive feel of what innovation is and that&

What are Desirability, Feasibility and Viability? Assessing your value proposition

In an increasingly competitive business landscape, innovation is paramount. Yet, to succeed with your innovation efforts, your company, product or service must fulfil three core criteria: desirability, feasibility, and viability. Originally coined by the global design firm IDEO, It is these 3 words that drive our entire Pathforger framework at

What makes a Good Startup Idea? Discover the Key Factors to Choosing Successful Ventures 💡

Are you struggling to determine which of your startup ideas is worth pursuing? Wasting time, money, and effort on a doomed concept is the last thing you want. In this blog post, we'll guide you through the essential factors to evaluate your idea's potential success. From

Why Launching a new startup in 2025 Doesn’t Have to be Backbreaking…

Remember that tech startup idea you’ve been sitting on, putting off because the day job’s too demanding and family life’s getting in the way? Don’t sit around any longer.⏰ ‍ Yes, back in the day, getting a start-up off the ground required a ton of heavy lifting.

The 7 Moments that Matter – and Why Mindlace Shows Up for Each One

Every ambitious organisation hits a handful of inflection points where the next decision either compounds growth or clips it. We call these “Moments”—and everything we do at Mindlace is designed to deliver outsized impact exactly when they appear. Below is a primer on the seven Moments, with a short

Innovator’s Dilemma pitfalls – and proven fixes

Clayton Christensen’s research shows that the very success factors of an established business can sabotage its next-wave bets. Below are the traps we see most often when companies try to diversify—and the playbook that breaks each one: * Cannibal-phobia. Product GMs block a new digital line because it “steals”

Business Model Diversification

Use bleeding-edge technology and AI to spin up new digital revenue streams, monetise your data, or create entirely new service models - fast Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 6 - Business Model Diversification: the point where ambitious firms look beyond their core

AI Enablement & Automation: Turning high-friction, manual workflows into smart, scalable systems that lift productivity without bloating teams

Modern organisations are drowning in copy-and-paste work. Knowledge workers still spend entire afternoons triaging email threads, re-keying data between SaaS tools, or searching SharePoint for the “right” version of a slide. That friction is now a strategic risk: McKinsey’s latest State of AI survey finds that 78% of companies

Diversify now or discount later: why revenue resilience is mission-critical before a private-equity exit

Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post explores Moment 7 – Growth-to-Exit Diversification: the point where a founder-led business is preparing for a sizeable PE deal or secondary buy-out and must prove its revenue engine is resilient, scalable and defensible. See a summary of those seven moments

Product / Platform Rethink: Re-imagining your core offering for an AI-native era

Mindlace focuses on helping companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 5 – Product / Platform Rethink: the point at which a digital product or service needs fresh traction and new revenue by embedding AI-native capabilities. See a summary of those seven moments here. Why this moment is impossible to

Legacy System Modernisation: Why fixing the plumbing is now a growth mandate

Moment 4 — Legacy System Modernisation Mindlace helps companies in seven key moments. This post unpacks Moment 4 – Legacy System Modernisation: the point where an ambitious company decides to turn brittle, manual platforms into an integrated tech-stack that can actually power growth. See a summary of those seven moments here. Why

Corporate Innovation: turning good intentions into ventures that move the needle

The rhetoric around “innovation labs” and “venture studios” is everywhere, yet most mid-market firms still feel change happening to them rather than through them. In 2024, Boston Consulting Group found that while 83% of leaders say innovation is a top-three priority, barely one-third believe they have the capabilities in place

Data-to-Decision Acceleration

Why Turning Raw Data into Rapid Insight Is Mid-Market Leaders’ Next Competitive Battleground Executive summary The volume of enterprise data will grow at roughly 2× the rate of global GDP for the rest of the decade, according to IDC’s 2024 Global DataSphere forecast (Revelations in the Global DataSphere, 2024:

Seizing the AI Advantage in the Mid-Market

Navigating Your AI Transformation. This report is designed for C-suite executives leading ambitious mid-market organisations. Inside this post, you'll gain a clear perspective on the strategic imperative of AI Enablement and Automation – understanding not only the significant opportunities for efficiency and growth but also the common challenges firms