Saadiq Rodgers-King

AI Transformation Consultant with 20+ years in tech helps professionals leverage AI tools to boost productivity. Shares practical insights from FinTech, Web3, and SaaS experience.

📍 Brooklyn, NY https://saadiq.xyz

6a7dfd416c617fce83f87a47 2026-08-13

The Workflow Breakthrough I Had to Delete

Companies are building workflows around what today’s AI can’t do. As the technology improves, those workarounds can preserve unnecessary labor and keep better models working like the ones they replaced. A notification hook I depended on showed me how useful scaffolding becomes a constraint.

6a7a8a1d6c617fce83f879ac 2026-08-11

Give AI an instruction manual for your family calendar

Create a family logistics file, connect it to your calendars, and use AI to propose coverage and make the assignments after you approve them.

6a73b0556c617fce83f878af 2026-08-05

I'm Going to Have to Say Goodbye to Granola

After years with Granola, I'm assembling a replacement around my own workflow. That personal decision reflects a larger shift in software as AI makes bespoke tools practical and changes what makes a software business defensible.

6a6ac8026c617fce83f87808 2026-07-30

Your AI Initiative Can Work and Still Fail

AI can produce useful agendas, summaries, and dashboards without improving a single decision or outcome. Design the operating loop that connects information to ownership and action, tailor it to the team, and expand the automation as trust grows.

6a624d86c0edf6e7182f3470 2026-07-23

Cutting Headcount Is Not an AI Strategy

AI can cut company costs. That's useful, but it's the thinnest application of the technology. Strategy begins when leaders redesign products, workflows, and decisions around what AI now makes possible.

6a584ae4c0edf6e7182f32a0 2026-07-16

You Don't Need an Agent. You Need a Librarian.

I run my consulting pipeline, content calendar, family logistics, workouts, and sourdough experiments from a folder of text files. The useful part is not an autonomous agent. It is a system that keeps the journal.

6a4d83da6ad51f06f489e5c2 2026-07-07

AI is bigger than vibe coding

Coding tools are the best AI interfaces we have. Their overlooked value isn't just building software, but handling messy work at the moment of need.

6a46d2656ad51f06f489e4e5 2026-07-02

Nobody Asks How You Made It When It's Good

The accusations are easy to spot. You used AI, I can tell from the em-dashes. They're also a distraction. The real test is whether anyone stands behind it, and whether it was worth your time to read.

6a3e99bf6ad51f06f489e3e6 2026-06-26

Stop using the default meeting summary for every task

Context is everything with AI. Meeting summaries are a simple example. When the task changes, go back to the transcript and ask for the slice you actually need.

6a3d57ef6ad51f06f489e36c 2026-06-25

Stop reviewing the development plan

When software gets easier to produce, the useful review moves upstream to the problem and downstream to the build system. The polished plan in the middle matters less than it used to.

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