A weekly read for the people inside companies who shape how AI gets used. Ships every Friday, so you show up Monday with an informed point of view.

Fieldnotes by Superadditive is a weekly newsletter about AI in the workforce, written by Bud Caddell, for the people inside companies who shape how AI actually gets used.

New posts arrive Friday. Read it over the weekend, marinate on it, and walk into Monday ready to guide your org’s decision making.

The question I care about is whether AI is making organizations, and the people inside them, genuinely smarter, or just adding technology on top of what was already there. Every piece touches that question from some angle.

In general, I am optimistic about AI and skeptical of vendor claims. I root for the humans inside the companies. I credit leaders who reverse bad calls. I try to name what is broken without moralizing about it. I also care about what you think, so let me know.

About Superadditive

Superadditive helps companies redesign work for the AI era.

Most AI transformation plugs new tools into old workflows and calls it progress. What it usually does is intensify what was already broken. Handoffs that strip away context. Measurement that rewards motion over judgment. Knowledge that never makes it from the people who have it to the people who need it.

We work on the deeper question. Not “where should we use AI,” but whether knowledge and judgment are actually flowing through the work. When they are, a team plus a tool produces more than the team alone could have. That is superadditive.