Will Schenk

Will is the founder of TheFocus.AI, where he works with Fortune 500 clients on AI transformation — building custom agent workflows and harnesses, and helping engineering and research teams move from prompting to production. He previously founded HappyFunCorp, a Brooklyn product-design and engineering studio that built more than 300 mobile, set-top, and TV apps before being acquired. Along the way he spun out Tezlab, an EV analytics product for Tesla and Rivian owners. At Turing Post he co-authors the Org Age of AI series with Ksenia, focused on how organizations actually adopt these tools — the workflows, the team shapes, and the unit of work that emerges when agents become part of the loop. He writes regularly at https://thefocus.ai and https://willschenk.com and runs TheFocus.AI Labs out of a 1740s house in northwest Connecticut, where he is also raising 5 delightful children.

The Org Age of AI

#6: The Flywheel: What Happens When Workflows Run Themselves

13 min read

Jun 13, 2026

#6: The Flywheel: What Happens When Workflows Run Themselves

AI flywheels are closed-loop workflows that generate, measure, and decide what to try next. Here’s why verification must come before autonomy

Will Schenk, +1

The Org Age of AI

#5: AI Workflow Patterns: The Real Unit of AI Adoption in 2026

17 min read

May 9, 2026

#5: AI Workflow Patterns: The Real Unit of AI Adoption in 2026

Will Schenk, +1

The Org Age of AI

12 min read

Apr 25, 2026

#4:There are no AI-native enterprises

Why the enterprise AI problem is not a technology problem. In the series: The Org Age of AI

Will Schenk, +1

The Org Age of AI

#3: How to Build an AI-Native Startup from Day One

10 min read

Apr 11, 2026

#3: How to Build an AI-Native Startup from Day One

What actually makes a startup AI-native — and how to build one from day one. A practical framework of 5 principles: machine-legibility, tool portability & more.

Ksenia Se, +1

The Org Age of AI

13 min read

Apr 4, 2026

#2: The Unsexy Truth of AI Adoption

Institutional redesign, step by step: how companies actually become ready for AI

Ksenia Se, +1

The Org Age of AI

#1: AI Feels Powerful. So Why Is the ROI Still Missing?

10 min read

Mar 21, 2026

#1: AI Feels Powerful. So Why Is the ROI Still Missing?

Most AI pilots fail because companies bolt tools onto old workflows. Here's why AI workflow redesign is the real source of enterprise value and ROI.

Ksenia Se, +1

AI Agents

State of AI Coding: Context, Trust, and Subagents

12 min read

Nov 23, 2025

State of AI Coding: Context, Trust, and Subagents

Context engineering, agent swarms, verification loops: what the AI Engineer Summit revealed about how agentic coding actually works — and where the IDE is going.

Ksenia Se, +1

AI 101

12 min read

Aug 6, 2025

AI 101: Everything You Need to Know about GPT OSS

What is GPT-OSS? OpenAI's open-weight MoE models explained: architecture, Ollama setup, memory requirements, and benchmarks vs DeepSeek & Qwen3.

Alyona Vert., +2

"Froth on the Daydream"

FOD#107: It's NOT the year of agents – it's the year when WE got used to AI

7 min read

Jun 30, 2025

FOD#107: It's NOT the year of agents – it's the year when WE got used to AI

Plus 10 open-source deep research assistants and other useful stuff

Ksenia Se, +1

"Froth on the Daydream"

FOD#106: Don't be passive aggressive with your agents

8 min read

Jun 23, 2025

FOD#106: Don't be passive aggressive with your agents

Plus: who to hire from the coding agents crowd, and a new video on how Sam Altman’s thinking about AI is evolving

Ksenia Se, +1

AI Agents

7 min read

Jun 21, 2025

🦸🏻#20: What Coding Agent Wins?

Hands-on comparison of 15 coding agents across IDEs, CLIs, and full-stack platforms. Cursor and Warp lead. See scores, DX ratings, and who to use for what.

Ksenia Se, +1