The Judgment Observatory
Case files and watch items on pricing power, renewal friction, and AI in high-trust B2B information.
The shift it tracks
Premiums have not disappeared. But they are moving towards the governed judgment behind content: the provenance, the method, the source, the accountability for when an output is wrong.
I started The Judgment Observatory to track that shift in the markets where it is most commercially legible: specialist B2B information, price reporting, legal and financial data, research platforms, intelligence.
How the pieces are made
The Judgment Observatory now documents the analytical process behind each new piece. Pieces now end with a Judgment Trace: the analytical framework, the sources, the field evidence, what is inferred, what is speculative, any corrections, and which parts were mine and which were developed with Claude.
Pieces now label claims as observed, inferred or speculative.
Start here
The New Economics of Judgment: Two Case Files From the Frontier of High-Trust Information Businesses
For a high-trust information business, the first impact of generative AI may not look like a dramatic shock.
What the AI Conversation in This Sector Is Missing
The cost of producing plausible content has collapsed for high-trust information businesses, their competitors and clients.
The Gap Is Now Measurable
Generative AI has made the surface appearance of high-quality B2B content cheap to produce.