Prysmic Academy

Long-form thinking on AI in operations: agentic supply chain, dashboard fatigue, ERP gaps, and the playbooks behind autonomous execution.

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• The Operators: Inside The Perfect Jean with CEO Ovadia Labaton — The Perfect Jean's CEO came out of BlackRock and Citadel, built the brand cash-flow positive from its first year, and treats AI as an optimization layer. A conversation about multi-million dollar inventory bets, shipping speed as a trust signal, and the lifestyle business as a real choice.
• Pricing the Light — Every board is now asking whether its AI agents are worth what they cost. For a brand that makes and moves real product, the answer was never going to show up on the token bill.
• Unchecked — Every operations leader knows their freight spend to the dollar. Almost none can say what share of it was billed correctly. On international lanes, where the charge is built from documents nobody reads twice, that gap is where the money goes.
• The Operators: Inside Underoutfit with CEO Daniel Malek — Underoutfit's CEO spent sixteen years investing in companies before crossing over to run one. A conversation about the SKU matrix, operations as the moat, and why the balance sheet decides who wins.
• From Forecast to Reroute — How agentic AI turns demand and inventory planning into action, the moment conditions change.
• They Moved Up — Every time a machine took over the repetitive work, the people who did it rose to better work. Operations is reaching that moment now.
• Look Away — Our customers asked for dashboards. What they actually wanted was the freedom to stop watching one.
• How to Train an AI Agent to Run Your Operation — The knowledge that runs your operation lives in a few people's heads. Training an AI agent to hold it is more a management job than a technical one.
• V-Formation — The flight from pilot to production is a visibility problem.
• Babel — AI doesn't break in operations because the model can't read. It breaks because the documents stopped speaking the same language.
• Curiouser and Curiouser: A Framework for Building With AI in Ops — Ops teams can finally build their own AI workflows. Some are doors worth opening, others are floors you fall through, and four questions tell you which is which.
• You Bought a Copilot. What You Needed Was an Operator. — Copilots assist inside a single tab. Operators execute across the whole workflow. The difference is where leverage actually lives.
• When the Rules Change Overnight — The Section 122 tariffs expire on July 24. Your supply chain will need to recalculate everything. Is your operations team ready to do it in hours instead of weeks?
• Stop Exploring AI. Start Deploying It. — Why the biggest AI risk isn't moving too fast. It's spending a year choosing instead of two weeks trying.
• One Year After "Liberation Day": What Tariffs Actually Did to Operations Teams — The Hidden Operational Tax of Trade Policy Volatility
• The End of the Dashboard Era — Why Supply Chains Need AI Operators, Not Observers
• From the Operations Floor - Agentic Supply Chain — The Software Did Not Save Us.
• Your ERP Is Not the Problem — Why the most expensive operational mistakes hide between your systems — not inside them.
• AI Agents and the Future of Supply Chain Execution — How autonomous agents are closing the gap between operational intent and operational reality