Eric Porres
Eric Porres
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I'm rewiring a 7,000-person company to work with AI. I write down what holds up.

Chief AI Officer at Logitech. Beyond Reason is where the frameworks go, with the receipts attached.

Before Logitech: CMO four times, at B2B companies between $40M and $400M in revenue, including Rocket Fuel through its IPO. Then I founded MeetingScience, which Logitech acquired. Philosophy at Duke.

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Writing

Beyond Reason, on Substack. New pieces Tuesdays, plus a Friday edition.

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  1. How I Built My Second Brain

    In July I planned to open-source my AI memory system. Here's the full blueprint instead, and why the build stays private.

  2. Friday Edition: Tips Need Evals Too

    A viral prompt from an Anthropic engineer told me to insist on outside validation. So I ran an A/B test on the prompt before I used it.

  3. I Handed an AI Agent My Family's Life. Here's What It Can Do.

    Skydiving logistics, festival lodging, a parking ticket, a chess lesson: two weeks with OpenAI's Dot, and six things to hand yours.

  4. You're Getting the Model to Do Less Than You Think

    Every step, the model re-reads the whole session. Long sessions leave it less room to think and do, and bill you for carrying it.

Talks

Keynotes, podcasts, and films, each with the recording.

All 12 talks

  1. How Logitech Uses AI as a Thought Partner to Drive Enterprise Transformation

    Google Workspace, Transformation Architects · Video

  2. What Fills the Room: Rethinking the A in AI

    AUTONOMOUS Summit, Board of Innovation · Keynote

  3. What Happens When AI Adoption Actually Works?

    Beyond the Prompt, with Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin · Podcast

  4. Logitech: From Raw Data to Slides

    Google Workspace, AI Boost Bites · Video

Books and articles by other writers.

  1. The Human Advantage: What AI Can’t Do Without You

    Jeremy Utley, Hay House · Book, Chapters 9 and 10

  2. The 11PM Email: How Leaders Use AI to Solve the Problems That Keep Them Awake at Night

    Tomas Bay · Book, endorsement

  3. From Vending Machines to Champions

    WRITER, Humans of AI · Profile

  4. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home

    Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen, Knopf · Book

  5. Eric Porres Builds MeetingScience To Make Meetings More Effective

    Bruce Rogers, Forbes · Profile

Built

Free to use and to share.

All on GitHub

For everyone

  1. TrialThread

    Every recruiting clinical trial in America is public. Almost no one can find theirs. TrialThread is a free, open-source agent that reads the eligibility criteria for you in plain English. It will never charge a patient.

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  2. The AI Field Guide

    Twenty-two pages on how AI actually works, for the people approving the strategies and signing the contracts. Free under CC BY 4.0.

    Read the field guide

  3. True, Then Beautiful

    Two AIs decoded the same living-brain ultrasound file five ways. One painting lied, beautifully. The honest five are in 3D.

    Open the field note

For builders

Skills and plugins

Servers and systems

Personal

Outside the day job.

Dwight Peltzer, 1935–2026

My piano teacher for 38 years, and a pianist American composers trusted with their premieres. I built his living history: 92 documented entries and 18 performances recovered from analog tape, four of them complete 1969–70 faculty recitals.

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Contact

Speaking, podcasts, and advisory: send a request. A paragraph on the problem gets a faster answer than a request for a call.