Research
Featured essay · October 2026
Stop Competing for Talent, Dominate it.
The conventional company competes for talent. The exceptional company creates its own supply.
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Own the supply.
Featured briefing · May 2026
Understanding the Electrician Shortage.
Roughly 10,000 credentialed electricians a year against demand approaching 100,000 a year, and structurally widening. The deficit is binding what America says it wants to build.
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The shortage.
Build, buy, rent.
Build, buy, or rent your industrial workforce.
Honest math.
Apprenticeship vs. college: the honest math.
Still human.
Are the skilled trades AI-proof?
Train them here.
How to build a manufacturing apprenticeship program.
Prove the skill.
Measuring competency when the stakes are real.
The real path.
The trades aren't an alternative to college.
School, rebuilt.
The Trade School 2.0 America needs.
Quiet decay.
Education decay is a national security risk.
Not produced.
Why universities can't produce the talent.
The exposure.
The Iran War exposed America's AI workforce crisis.
Weaponized classrooms.