Unit of Work: The AI Productivity Metric That Actually Maps to ROI
Your AI vendor sells you tokens. Your business runs on completed work. If you cannot translate between those two units, who is actually winning the deal?
Zachary Johnson
AI Consultant, Argentix Consulting
Zachary Johnson is a founding partner and AI consultant at Argentix, where he leads engineering.
He adopted large language models early and has spent the last four years putting them to work in his own companies.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, with an emphasis in software engineering, from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and associate degrees in computer programming and mathematics from Lake Superior College.
Posts
Token Economy: What Every AI Dollar Actually Buys
If your AI agent runs 500 calls a day and you have never looked at the token count of a single one, how confident are you that your "cost-saving automation" is actually saving money?
Manager
When your AI vendor calls their product an autonomous agent, they are telling you — without using these words — that they are selling you a manager. Not a tool. A manager. That agent will direct…
Self-Reflection: The Property That Makes Autonomy Real
A confident wrong answer looks identical to a confident right answer, until something bad happens downstream. The entire value of self-reflection lives in that gap. Which AI output in your business…
What Autonomous Really Means
If your team hired a person whose job was to build tools for the rest of the team and remember the good ones, you would give them a budget, an onboarding plan, a manager, and a quarterly review. An…
What an Agentic Workflow Actually Is
Look at the last ten recurring tasks someone on your team complained about. How many of them have inputs you could write on one line, a tool set you could list on a napkin, and an output format you…
What AI Slop Really Means
Before AI, a bad idea had to survive an implicit conversation with its own cost. You would sit with it for a week. You would ask someone you trusted. You would walk around knowing you might be wrong…
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