Squared is a weekly AI briefing for CTOs, Heads of AI and the engineers who report to them. It lands every Friday: the few developments that matter, and what each one means for you.
I’m Daniel Usvyat, Principal at USQRD, and I write Squared. I build production AI systems for a living, and most weeks the signal-to-noise ratio in AI is terrible. Squared is the filter I wish someone else published: a handful of things worth your attention, each with a plain answer to “so what do I do about it?”
What you get
A Friday briefing. A handful of stories, no filler. If it was a quiet week, I say so.
Practitioner insights between issues. Field notes from production AI work: what broke, why, and what we changed.
Two editions
Builder Edition is for the people shipping it. What changed in AI engineering this week, what broke, and what is worth adopting now rather than in six months.
Leadership Edition is for the people accountable for it. The developments that change a decision you are about to make: buy vs build, where to place a bet, what to ignore.
You choose when you subscribe, and you can change it any time at squared.usqrd.com/account. Subscribe to one or both.
What you won’t get
No hype. No breathless model-launch coverage. No “top 10 AI tools” lists.
Everything here is free. Squared is published by USQRD. Longer-form pieces live at usqrd.com/insights and past issues are in the archive here. Reply to any issue — I read every one.
