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Recent Intelligence
How the Battle for Attention Is Reshaping the Midterms
Campaigns increasingly compete on platforms engineered to capture attention, where content and narrative, not policy detail, drive political outcomes. A sharp look at how the contest for voter attention is defining the coming midterms.
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
The architecture behind trustworthy enterprise AI. Grounding language models in authoritative, domain-specific knowledge is what reduces hallucination and makes outputs auditable, the same principle at the core of every Clear Impact engine.
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
A landmark survey of 885 venture capitalists found that nearly half rank the founding team as the single most important factor in an investment. The evidence behind why the people, not just the business, decide outcomes.
Philanthropic Sourcing, Diligence, and Decision-Making
Bias enters the grant pipeline quietly: through referral networks, initial vetting, and final funding calls. A practical look at how disciplined, structured diligence helps foundations fund the strongest work rather than the most familiar.
From Promise to Impact: Measuring the Full Value of AI
Most enterprises cannot tie AI to real bottom-line impact. McKinsey reframes AI as a decision system, where the return comes from better decisions rather than faster tasks, and lays out a framework for measuring it.
Assessing the State of AI Adoption Across the Federal Government
Three consecutive administrations have prioritized AI across federal agencies. A clear-eyed assessment of where adoption actually stands, and what responsible deployment inside high-stakes public institutions really requires.