About this site

Below the Surface is a weekly newsletter about the human side of AI adoption. Tuesday mornings. One idea per issue. Built for leaders rolling out AI across thousands of people and individuals upgrading their own relationship with it — because the underlying dynamics are the same at both scales.

It's written by Quintin Smith, founder of Anchor11 Consulting and a full-time AI Adoption Consultant inside a Fortune 500 enterprise. Manufacturing operations leader. Root cause analysis practitioner. Former motorcycle shop owner. Learning and performance professional. Five careers, one question: what does it actually take to get a human being to change how they work — and make the change stick?

The full thesis lives in the manifesto. Start there if you want to know what you're getting into.

Reach me: Reply to any issue, or email quintin@anchor11.com directly. I read everything.