John Collins.

I investigate consequential questions about AI and build systems that help answer them.

My writing follows technical change through operating constraints, adoption, spending, delivery and economic value. It brings the engineering into the financial argument, and the financial argument back to what the systems can actually do.

Deep Vertical AI is my independent research and systems practice. I share selected findings, calculations and technical explanations through the articles collected here, and on LinkedIn and X.

The purpose is useful judgment: find the missing evidence, challenge the prevailing explanation and establish what would change the conclusion.

Deep Vertical AI conducts proprietary research and does not undertake external client engagements.