Field Notes

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2026-08-15

10 min read

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Ten Trillion, and a Repainted Direction

A letter from the Chief Extraction Officer on crossing the Index milestone, rebuilding the site, and the thirty-six gradients that did not survive it.

Ninety-nine days to travel from nine trillion to ten. Sixteen days to travel from ten to ten point two. Nobody at this firm did anything differently in those sixteen days; we simply have the best seats in the room.

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2026-04-18

17 min read

Q1 FY26 Earnings Call: Prepared Remarks and Q&A

A lightly edited transcript of our first full quarterly earnings call. Forward guidance, operator commentary, and one genuinely rude analyst who will not be getting a follow-up.

We reported the strongest quarter in the firm's history while our PR team was still drafting the Q4 press release. Q1 FY26 extraction grew 37% year-over-year, client Net Promoter Score hit an all-time low (a leading indicator), and one analyst asked a question our General Counsel has requested we characterize as 'outside the scope of this call.' Here is the full transcript.

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2024-11-15

8 min read

Leveraging Synergistic Extraction Paradigms: Our Q4 2024 Outlook

Moving the needle on customer value realization through holistic monetization frameworks

As we close out another transformative fiscal year, it's critical that we take a 30,000-foot view of the extraction landscape and align our go-forward strategy with emergent value-capture opportunities.

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2024-03-01

15 min read

2024 Enshittification Trend Report: The State of Platform Decay

An objective analysis of who's extracting what from whom

We analyzed 500+ platforms across 12 industries to understand the current state of enshittification. Spoiler: it's going great (for shareholders).