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Introducing H2AI: The AI Community for Operations Leaders

Meet H2AI, a private community for operations leaders making AI useful at work. Share workflows, learn from peers and join practical sessions and events.

Ghita El Haitmy · Sep 30, 2026

Introducing H2AI: The AI Community for Operations Leaders

ResourcesSep 27, 2026

What is an enterprise intelligence layer? A practical guide

An enterprise intelligence layer connects company data, meaning, ownership, policy, and actions so AI agents can answer accurately and operate safely.

ELI team

ResourcesSep 25, 2026

AI Spend Policy Template for Startups: A One-Page Policy for 20-50-Person Teams

An AI spend policy tells employees which AI tools they may buy, what data they may share, who owns each tool or agent, and when approval is required. For a 20-50-person company, one page is enough if the policy connects every purchase to an owner, budget, purpose, limit and review date.

Ghita El Haitmy

ResourcesSep 23, 2026

Claude Code vs Codex vs Grok Bot: Subscriptions Worth in API Dollars (2026)

The monthly price of an AI coding tool is becoming a terrible proxy for how much compute you are actually consuming.

Ghita El Haitmy

ResourcesSep 18, 2026

AI Agent Security Checklist: 10 Controls Before You Automate

Before connecting an AI agent to company systems, give it one accountable owner, the minimum access required, approval checkpoints for consequential actions, a hard spending limit, complete activity logs, and a tested shutdown path. Start with one narrow workflow and expand only after the agent performs reliably under real operating conditions.

Ghita El Haitmy

ResourcesSep 16, 2026

SaaS Renewal Checklist for Companies Without a Procurement Team

A SaaS renewal checklist helps a growing company decide whether to renew, reduce, renegotiate, replace or cancel each software contract before the notice deadline. Start 90 days early, assign one owner, verify actual usage and business value, compare alternatives, document the decision and confirm that billing matches the final agreement.

Ghita El Haitmy

NewsSep 9, 2026

Stripe Paid $7 Billion to See Your Token Bill. It Still Can't See the AI Inside Your Salesforce Renewal.

Stripe just spent more than $7 billion to see how much your company pays per token. It still has no idea how much you're paying for the AI features bundled into your Salesforce, HubSpot, or Workday contract.

Ghita El Haitmy

ArticleSep 8, 2026

Fortune Says the C-Suite Doesn't Know Who Owns AI Spend. Here's What Ownership Actually Looks Like in a 200-Person Company.

Fortune reported this month that most C-suite executives cannot say, with confidence, who owns AI decisions at their own company. Harness found something close to the same gap on the cost side: over half of organizations have no clear owner for AI spend at all. Neither report was talking about startups, but the problem gets worse, not better, the smaller you are.

Ghita El Haitmy

ResourcesSep 6, 2026

16 Ways to Cut AI Inference Costs Without Downgrading Your Model

This guide covers 16 practical AI inference optimization techniques. Each section explains what the technique does, where it fits, how to use it, and what to test before shipping it.

Ghita El Haitmy

ResourcesSep 6, 2026

Beyond YC: 50 Startup Programmes in San Francisco, New York and London

Here are 50 places to look across San Francisco, New York and London, including familiar names and less-obvious options such as ODF, Character Labs, Conviction Embed and South Park Commons.

Ghita El Haitmy