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Avanceé.Agency
Connecting strategy & leadership with novel/innovative technologies

Avancee is a micro-consulting platform delivering strategic guidance, tailored to the competency maturity of a user or team. Learn more

Services include:

  1. User Experience (UX) & Process/Service Design
  2. Process Research and Business Analysis
  3. Innovation Coaching (incl. Fractional Leadership)

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  • On AI Tools and Focus

    One of the tools talked about during this month’s Sales Effectiveness Roundtable (Central Maryland Chamber) was the use of AI/LLMs to do some of the work of qualifying connections and business research. And while doing a “search” is normative, it’s more impressive when you can dive into analysis models which go a bit deeper to focus contexts for connections. One of the tools (when am on the Avanceé Agency R&D device) is a web browser called Dia (The Browser Company, Atlassian). Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 19 Sept 25 🔗

    A bit late on this week’s posting… can I be like Meta and blame the wifi for this 😜 Also published: On Small Experiments Thoughts About Meta Connect’s 👓 Product Announcements Continue reading →

  • Thoughts About Meta Connect’s 👓 Product Announcements

    Shared this on a few other spaces, so it made sense to also note here. Pasted without much of an edit. excellent updates to the Meta-RayBans from a specs end. These have been a sneaky buy for many. the two Oakley models are solid. The HSTN remind me of the exact use case my Snap Spectacles have served for years the Oakley Meta Vanguard will make some run/hike/bike shops step up their game in terms of selling connected 👓 and the Garmin/Strava integration is 🤌🏽 I’d love to see bike computer head units connect directly to the Vanguard 👓 The Meta RayBan Display 👓 def stole the show. Continue reading →

  • On Small Experiments

    Was listening to a book review from one of our partners earlier and they mentioned a book which focused on adding small experiments into one’s life to help break down larger tasks, or remove the barriers causing procrastination so one can discover some other aspects to their processes, work, and/or life. This reminded of the consistent practice here of doing lots of research and experiments around physical-connected devices and spaces with a goal of looking at the ripples of identity, experience design, and social interactions. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Resds for 12 Sept 25 🔗 🔮

    Currently sitting in a workshop which is talking about using AI in small business. One of the non-AI bits which hits in these moments is the simple conference badge. There’s more which can be done with them, like this where one can be encouraged to stretch further into a physical-web. Interesting how this week’s reads correspond to this. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 5 Sept 25 🔗

    Spent the day exploring how HUD glasses 👓 (without an LLM attached) might flow with things. The EverySight Maverick DE is such a solid hardware package. Would really be wonderful to see it integrated with a few other accessories and activity contexts. But that’s just the shape of things in the wearable space now isn’t it? Perhaps there’s something else beyond the lenses and layers to graft… Continue reading →

  • Next Up

    We try not to make too much about the metrics/statistics of this effort. A good deal of what this initiative is about has to do with taking the diverse and innovative, mental, connective tissue of one person and turning it into exploitable opportunities for others. This tends to dissuade folks who may be looking at this effort as some kind of evidence of other artifacts or evidence of being able to be used for something else. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 29 Aug 25 🔗

    There’s been a stutter in terms of the opinion editorials for the warmer months. Most of that can be assigned to being on a bicycle and enjoying the sunlight. Because much of what connects the dots between things here happens in a space that’s not quite online nor completely off-line either. Existence happens in between the points, not just at the point. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 22 Aug 25 🔗

    It really doesn’t matter where you might have dropped off, if you were doing things that are traceable, you can go back and pick up some of the dropped tools. Of course, you can only do that if the things that you dropped were a slingshot to push you forward. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 15 Aug 25 🔗

    It seems as if the summer is full of challenges, surprises, and maybe a break in some of the heat. Well, the temperature, but not necessarily the pace of politics, design, and development. It’s probably gonna get a little bit hotter in those spaces before it cools off. Also published this week Unlocking AI Engineering ROI and LLM-powered Innovation and its LLM-edited follow up Applying Lessons Using Dia Skills Continue reading →