The Signal Flare - Data Driven Insights
Mike Lukianoff, Fred LeFrancI'm an entrepreneur who turns data into predictive models that help businesses make decisions. I'm constantly learning from the work analyses, the people I work with and the experience of being an entrepreneur. This is what I write about.
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The Tokenomics Trap
By Mike Lukianoff·May 16, 2026·12 min read
Inference costs on equivalent-quality AI workloads have fallen by roughly two orders of magnitude in 18 months. Open-weight models match the capabilities of retired commercial models at one-hundre...
The End of Easy Pricing
Restaurants are about to face the hardest pricing environment in decades. Not the hardest inflation — that was 2022. Something more difficult. A cost-side spike meeting a demand-side cliff. No monetary backstop. No consumer savings cushion....
Stop Treating Decisions Like Projects
Every organization using AI strategically is, whether they’ve named it or not, making a bet on how humans and machines should collaborate. Most are betting on the wrong thing.
They’re deploying AI to automate tasks, generate reports, and a...
What Follows the March Gas Shock
Restaurant spending is discretionary. It is also one of the more reliable early signals of how consumers are actually behaving — not how they report feeling in a survey, but what they do when household budgets tighten and something has to g...
The Agent Escaped - What Now?
A few weeks ago I wrote about the security vulnerabilities emerging from the new generation of AI agents — and what we’re building at SignalFlare to stay ahead of them. We’re not claiming to have all the answers. We’re trying to ask the rig...
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