LTSP26 — Pre-Conference AI Survey with Fusion
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A pre-conference survey that isn't a survey: instead of forcing strategy leaders into predetermined answer choices, Blendification built Fusion, an AI teammate that conducts a live, adaptive conversation about how AI is actually affecting strategy work today.
Welcome to LTSP26 — Conference Walkthrough & Platform Orientation
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Registering was the easy part. The hard part is what happens between now and midnight Thursday, when the entire Long Term Strategy Conference 2026 closes. Francis Wade's ask before you close this video: pick exactly one live session, one persona, one video — not everything.
Ep 39 "Trendslop": Why AI Keeps Giving Strategists the Same Answer
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A chief strategy officer asks ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same strategic question before his board retreat. Different phrasing, identical conclusions — and no way to tell if any of it is actually good advice.
AI Is Not Strategy - It's Table Stakes w/ Felipe Bovolon
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Most companies are about to make the same AI mistake: benchmarking everyone else, copying the market, and calling it strategy. Felipe Bovolon says that path leads straight to parity — and zero real advantage.
Why Scenario Planning Is Too Slow for Modern Strategy w/ Dr Mike Jackson
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A CEO named Philip keeps sending his board back to the same trends without reaching a conclusion — the classic symptom of scenario planning trapped in a broken model. Mike Jackson says AI is about to make that model obsolete.
Why Category Design Was Too Expensive — Until AI Changed the Game w/ Mike Damphousse and Kevin Maney
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Most companies know category design could transform their strategy. Almost none can afford the traditional way of doing it — outside advisors, six-figure fees, months of workshops. Kevin Maney and Mike Damphousse are changing that math with AI.
Why Most Strategy Frameworks Fail in the AI Age Core Core #4
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Most companies are asking the wrong AI question. It's not whether AI belongs in strategy—it's where, and why most planning processes break down before they ever get useful. Francis Wade argues classic frameworks like SWOT and Five Forces are lenses, not workflows.
Why AI Strategy Advice Keeps Pushing the Same Trendy Answers w/ Angelo Romasanta
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Ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same strategy question and 96% of the time you'll get the same answer, dressed up as if it were built just for you. Angelo Romasanta calls this "trendslop"—and it started with a study of AI playing Mafia.
Introduction | Why AI Strategy Advice Sounds Smart but Still Misleads Core #1
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AI can make strategy feel smarter in seconds—and flood it with polished nonsense that sounds tailored while matching every competitor's answer word for word. Francis Wade opens the Long Term Strategy Conference 2026 by naming the problem: 'trendslop'.
Ep 38 - The Bellhop and the Sardines
Most strategy activation programs fail for a counterintuitive reason: employees don't lack information, they lack rehearsed judgment. Town halls, PDFs, and cascaded briefings transmit content, but the moment that matters — an employee facing an ambiguous tradeoff with no manager present — receives no training at all.
Preview - Interview with Angelo Romasanta - "Trendslop" Author
Seven different AI models, asked the same corporate strategy question across 15,000 trials, gave the identical recommendation 96% of the time. Researcher Angelo Romasanta calls the pattern "trendslop" — and it's already inside your consultants' workflow.
Testing AI in Corporate Strategy
McKinsey told AT&T in the 1980s that global mobile subscribers would top 900,000 by 2000. The actual number was 100 million – a miss by two orders of magnitude. That forecast was polished, confident, and built entirely on past data: trendslop, long before AI. Today's LLMs produce the same flaw on demand: confident output that sounds insightful until you inspect it.