Boy WJ Kester

After 20+ years advising boards, PE firms, and executive teams on strategy, M&A, and transformation — including as a Partner at Monitor Deloitte — I kept seeing the same pattern: value creation plans that looked right on paper but collapsed in execution.

The problem was never the strategy. It was the organization’s ability to absorb the plan. Every existing diagnostic measured parts in isolation. None measured the system.

DecisionDNA was built to close that gap.

DecisionDNA Substack

Research notes, diagnostic methodology, and the AI Infrastructure Monitor.

AI Infrastructure Monitor

Ongoing series tracking metabolic patterns in AI infrastructure investment. Applying DecisionDNA methodology to the largest capital deployment cycle in technology history.

Ongoing

The Verification Gap

AI Infrastructure Monitor Vol 2. How verification failure creates systemic risk in AI infrastructure markets.

2026

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