The $10M Question Nobody Is Asking

Originally published on LinkedIn, January 23, 2026. Republished here as the canonical version. TL;DR: A $10M AI transformation to save nine months of time-to-market. How many decades to recover the delta? In a world of high interest rates and compressed margins, “growth at any cost” is a death sentence. I architect for fiscal integrity — if the ROI doesn’t outpace the cost of capital, the architecture is a failure. ...

January 23, 2026 · 2 min · Druhin Dhavala