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Alpha Business Solutions manages payroll services for contingent labor, flexible workforce, interns, misclassified 1099 employees, pre-identified talent, seasonal workers, working retirees, and more.

06/02/2026

A CIO asked me last quarter to find her a business analyst. I asked her what that person would actually do.

The answer kept shifting.

That's how the wrong hire happens.

There are different kinds of BAs. One bridges product, engineering, and operations. Another lives in Excel. Another is essentially a junior PM.

AI is changing what the title actually means.

The title stays the same. The actual job under that title shifts.

In a mid-market team, your margin for error is smaller. So are your margins.

Start with the outcome you need. The title comes after.

05/28/2026

I hear this a lot from mid-market CTOs: "We need someone with AI experience."

My first question is always: in what context?

I've been in this conversation a few times lately. Someone wants to hire a Head of AI.

I ask what that person would do on day one.

The pause tells me everything I need to know.

The next question I ask: what are your engineers already learning on their own? What tools are they testing?

Sometimes a new hire makes sense. Often your engineer is already building it.

AI isn't a new department. It's a new requirement inside roles you already have.

05/26/2026

Bad processes hide in enterprise. They hurt in mid-market.

I learned this the hard way.

I built Diversant to $300M serving Fortune 500s. Sold it. Started Alpha in the mid-market seven years ago.

Same problems. Very different consequences.

The same workflow that costs a Fortune 500 a few hundred hours a quarter can wreck a mid-market team.

At a mid-market client, it shows up as missed deadlines, overworked leaders, and panic hires.

In enterprise, a bad process hides inside the budget. Inside the layers. Inside the headcount.

In mid-market, there's nowhere for it to hide.

Mid-market CTOs don't need bigger systems. They need cleaner ones.

05/21/2026

I posted last week about passing on an AI sourcing tool. A few of you asked why.

In mid-market, being ruthless about tool choice isn't really an option.
In a large company, a failed tool disappears into the budget.
In a mid-market company, everybody feels it.

A platform nobody adopts. An automation that saves no time. An AI initiative that doesn't change the work.

In enterprise, the tool keeps getting talked about in slide decks even though the team using it stopped months ago.
In a mid-market team, they know by Friday.

The question isn't: "are we falling behind on AI?"

It's: "is the AI you've already rolled out giving time back to the people doing the work?"

05/19/2026

A vendor pitched us an AI sourcing tool last quarter. Promised to cut research time in half. We passed.

After enough AI investments at Alpha, I know what return actually looks like.

Here's the test I run on any AI or automation pitch:

Would the team notice if this worked? Not in a presentation... in the actual work.
Would delivery move faster? Would my best people spend less time chasing updates? Could I track the ROI?

In a Fortune 500, a tool nobody uses can sit in the stack for years.
In a mid-market team, you'll feel the pain sooner.

Tech leaders, how are you filtering AI vendors right now?

05/14/2026

After enough AI implementations at Alpha, I've stopped looking for the most technical person in the room.

Don't get me wrong... technical skill matters. But it's the easier piece to vet.

Harder to find: someone who can walk in and tell you what's actually going to work.

The technology. The workflow. The budget. The implementation path.
The technical specialists I've met know the first one front to back.

Few hold their own in budget conversations.

Even fewer push back when leadership wants AI without a real use case.

That's who you need in the room. Someone who knows the tech, the business, and when to call it.

05/12/2026

In mid-market teams, a wrong hire doesn’t hit you where you think it will.

It’s easy to focus on salary.

That’s not where the real impact is.

I’ve seen hires who don’t fail outright. They just need more support.

More direction. More check-ins. More time from the people already carrying the load.

And that’s where things start to shift.

Your strongest people get pulled away from the work they were hired to do.

The roadmap still moves. But slower.

Deadlines stretch. Decisions take longer.

In a larger company, that gets absorbed.

In a mid-market team, it doesn’t.

That’s where you feel the cost.

05/07/2026

I’ve seen engineers who look almost identical on paper.

Same tools. Similar background. Similar roles.

But once they’re in the role, it’s a different story.

I’ve seen situations where one hire needs constant direction just to keep work moving.

And another who walks in and changes how the team works.

Clarifies what needs to be built.
Gets people aligned.
Moves work that had been stuck.

And things start moving again.

No new systems. No extra spend.

Just a different level of contribution.

In mid-market teams, that difference shows up quickly.

The hires that make the biggest difference are the ones who bring clarity early, keep teams aligned, and help work move without extra overhead.

05/05/2026

In pharma, CIOs aren’t experimenting with AI for fun. They’re under pressure to show results quickly.

It’s a competitive, highly regulated environment, and the cost of getting it wrong is high.

So when they bring in someone new, it’s not an academic exercise.

They expect that person to contribute right away and show impact within months.

Cost savings. Efficiency. Progress.

They’re not looking to sift through dozens of options.

They want the right fit the first time.

That’s the standard.

And it’s the same pressure behind how they think about time, teams, and where they invest.

04/30/2026

Across New York and New Jersey, I’m seeing teams move pretty quickly with AI. Speed isn’t what worries me.

The blind spots are.

After three decades in this industry, I’ve learned new tools don’t create problems. They expose what’s already there.

I was talking with a client about AI the other day. You could tell they were excited about what it could do.

The output looked great. Everything seemed to be working.

But when we looked at where the output was coming from, the tone of the conversation changed.

Not about the tool.

About the data behind it.

That’s where the real risk shows up.

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