Micah Berkley
Miami, FLhello@micahberkley.com
Opinion & Editorial

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from where I sit.

My personal opinions, essays, and editorials on AI and where it's headed — written in plain language, straight from the work. Strong views, loosely held.

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★ Featured Essay
EssayJun 2026·9 min read

The Fractional Chief of AI: why mid-market companies don't need a full-time CAIO yet.

Most companies are one good operator away from real AI leverage — not one expensive executive. Here's the model I use to embed, ship, and hand off, and why it beats both consultants and full-time hires for the next two years.

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Research
May 2026 · 12 min

Voice AI that actually converts: what 50,000 calls taught me.

Field data from a mass-tort reply engine — what makes an AI phone call get answered, trusted, and filed.

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Playbook
Apr 2026 · 7 min

The $0 generative brand stack for small businesses.

The exact free and near-free tools I used to lift a Wynwood restaurant's profit 25% with AI imagery.

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Miami
Mar 2026 · 6 min

Teaching Overtown teens to earn with a laptop and free AI.

What happens when you hand frontier tools to kids the industry forgot — and why it's the most important work I do.

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Essay
Feb 2026 · 8 min

What 10 years of SRE taught me about shipping AI.

Reliability is a product feature. The same discipline that keeps planet-scale systems alive is what keeps AI in production.

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Research
Feb 2026 · 10 min

Measuring AI ROI: the metrics that survive a board meeting.

Most AI dashboards measure activity, not outcomes. Here's the small set of numbers leadership should actually track.

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Playbook
Jan 2026 · 11 min

A practical prompt architecture for production voice agents.

Latency, fallbacks, and guardrails — the structure I use so a voice agent holds up under real call volume.

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Essay
Jan 2026 · 7 min

Street smarts and book smarts: the case for AI that reaches everyone.

The most important AI work isn't at the frontier labs. It's in the neighborhoods deciding who gets to build.

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Miami
Dec 2025 · 6 min

Why Miami is quietly becoming an applied-AI city.

Not the next Silicon Valley — something more interesting. Builders shipping AI for real businesses, today.

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Research
Dec 2025 · 9 min

From ad spend to AI spend: lessons from marketing at scale.

Big-data marketing science taught me where AI cuts cost without cutting reach. The playbook transfers further than you'd think.

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