Elísio Simão — writingTechnologist, consultant and builder. Portuguese, living in Dubai, UAE. Notes on AI agents and building high-performance teams.https://elisiosimao.com/From potential to kinetic: why execution, not models, decides who gets value from agentshttps://elisiosimao.com/writing/from-potential-to-kinetic/https://elisiosimao.com/writing/from-potential-to-kinetic/Four in ten large organisations say they are scaling AI agents. Six in a hundred can point to a profit line. The ones that moved did not have better models. They made five decisions before the first line of code.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat twelve years across eight roles taught me about staying usefulhttps://elisiosimao.com/writing/twelve-years-eight-roles/https://elisiosimao.com/writing/twelve-years-eight-roles/People ask how someone who is easily bored and always looking for the next adventure ended up with a twelve-year tenure. When I left my former consulting firm I said I would never stay that long anywhere again. This is how I learned to never say never, and why it was the opposite of settling down.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT