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Madhu Shashanka

Austin, United States

Dr. Madhu Shashanka studies how large numbers of independent units become coherent, first in the brain, now in the enterprise.

Madhu earned his PhD in computational neuroscience studying how the brain coordinates vast numbers of independent units into coherent behavior, then spent two decades applying that lens to organizations, building and deploying enterprise AI across manufacturing, financial services, social media, and cybersecurity.

His book Coherence: The Competitive Advantage AI Can't Buy brings the two halves of that career together: what the science of coordinated systems reveals about competing in the age of abundant intelligence.

Coherise takes its name from a verb he coined: to coherise is to make a growing crowd of autonomous systems, and the people accountable for them, pull in the same direction. It is the work his book argues will decide which enterprises win.

Available For: Advising, Speaking
Travels From: Austin TX
Speaking Topics: How companies hold together as they fill with abundant intelligence. For CEOs and executives navigating the organizational impact of AI and agentic AI

Madhu Shashanka Points
Academic 0
Author 70
Influencer 36
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 106

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Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI 32.33
Business Strategy 30.31
Leadership 30.89
Management 32.90

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10 Article/Blogs
The Subtitle Gets a Second Act
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August 10, 2026
Newsletter – Edition 4 A quick update on the book. It is in design, and the cover is coming together. I am going back and forth with the publisher’s design team, so nothing is final yet. When the cover is ready, you will see it here first. Which brings me to a favor. In Edition […]

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

The Machinery Under Manners
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August 09, 2026
Reid Hoffman posted this week about how to make an introduction. His rule is the double opt-in. Before connecting two people, you check with both of them first. You ask each whether they want the intro, and you make it only when both say yes. He makes the case well. Every introduction is a bet [R

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Coding Got Easy, But What Kind?
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August 09, 2026
A programmer named Senko Rašić published an angry post this week. He is angry at a slogan going around: “code was never the hard part.” He calls it an insult to programmers. The post hit Hacker News and Lobsters and drew more than five hundred comments. Reading the comments, I noticed

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Uninformed Expectations, Five Years Later
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August 09, 2026
I named the roadblock to AI ROI back in 2021. It still exists but at a different place.

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

The Whole Book In Fifteen Sentences
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August 04, 2026
Newsletter – Edition 3 A quick milestone. Copy-editing on the book is finished, and it has moved into design. The words are settled. Now it becomes an object you can hold. Copy-editing is the pass where someone reads the manuscript line by line and fixes the grammar, punctuation, and consisten

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Could a Machine Have Had Darwin’s Idea?
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August 02, 2026
In November 2020 I started a thread on X. I have barely used the platform these past couple of years, and I only came back to this thread recently, by accident, when some of my own old posts surfaced in front of me. Reading them in one sitting was strange, because a thread I had […]

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Can Frontier AI Outdo MBAs?
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August 02, 2026
Three of the top business schools in the country just tested frontier AI on the analytical work their MBAs are trained to do, and the models scored in the high eighties. If you run a company, that number is coming for you soon, probably in a deck that recommends cutting a layer of analysts. So [R

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Sensing Is More Than Measurement
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August 02, 2026
The Financial Times reported this week on an internal Amazon presentation held July 28. Engineers walked staff through a set of AI cost overruns. The largest used Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet to match author details against product listings on Amazon’s retail site. It ran 860 percent over b

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Why Ford Rehired
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August 02, 2026
Ford has added more than 350 experienced engineers over the past three years after its automated quality systems failed to deliver the results the company expected. Inside Ford they are called gray beards. Some are former Ford employees. Others came from suppliers. Ford says it added the specialists

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

Early Signs of Rehiring
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July 27, 2026
A short update to an earlier post on the AI jobs debate. A few weeks ago I argued that the AI jobs debate was asking the wrong question. My point was that the layoffs of the past year were mostly a bet, not a result. Companies were cutting in anticipation of what AI would let […]

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Tags: Agentic AI, Business Strategy, Management

1 Book
Coherence: The Competitive Advantage AI Can't Buy
Amplify Publishing Group
November 17, 2026

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Tags: Agentic AI, Leadership, Management

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