Everyone is talking about AI. Few people can explain how it works, what it costs, who is winning, or what to do on Monday morning.
Version One is a one-volume guide for professionals and leaders who need to use AI, not just read about it. Written by an enterprise-technology operator with 25 years inside IBM, HP, AT&T and other global companies, it covers:
How AI actually works, in plain language, and where it fails. The invisible factory: chips, data centres, capex and token economics, and who profits. The US-China race: agents, robotics and what the West misses about Asia. An enterprise playbook: why pilots stall, and a trainable set of frameworks (R.O.C.K., C.H.E.C.K., Traffic Light) you can apply the same week. Try This exercises in every chapter, and 11 charts that make the numbers easy to see.
Whether you are a curious professional, a manager under pressure to "do something with AI", or an investor trying to follow the money, Version One gives you the first version of your own AI understanding: enough to ask better questions, make better decisions and lead before AI leads you.
