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Neuvottelija AI
Neuvottelija AI is Sami's broader publication on how artificial intelligence changes companies, labour, markets and knowledge work. It combines working papers, economic analysis, practical tools and field notes from real agent systems.
OpenClaw Chronicles remains a named series within the publication. Since April 2026, Sami has run a real multi-agent home lab and documented every step:Samantha (the long-context principal agent on a Mac mini M4, with her own git identity), Stöbä (a fast executor on an Ubuntu ThinkPad, retrained as a junior investment banker), and Hermes (a bounded research delegate). The series covers agent memory architecture, trust models and prompt-injection defense, agent migrations, and hybrid local/frontier model setups.
The publication — including English translations of the original Finnish OpenClaw articles, preserved with their original publication dates — lives atai.neuvottelija.com. New chapters are written in English together with Samantha through an approval-gated publishing pipeline.
AI Research
Working papers, empirical tests and critical analysis of AI’s economic effects.
Read researchAI and the Economy
Labour, wages, productivity, ownership, valuation and capital markets.
Read analysisAI and Society
Politics, power, institutions, security and public debate in the age of AI.
Read the sectionTools and Implementations
Practical workflows, comparisons, guides and technical implementations.
Explore toolsOpenClaw Chronicles
The preserved build log about Samantha, Stöbä, Hermes, memory and security.
Read the seriesGuides
Start with a comprehensive guide:Enterprise AI Agents: Economics & Governance ·Nordic SaaS Valuation & M&A.
Essays from the podcast
Long-form English essays on AI, agents and software economics, grounded in Neuvottelija podcast conversations — every claim cites its source episode and timestamp.
- Is AI a Bubble? Inference Pricing, Temu-Intelligence, and What Would Actually Have to Break · 2026-07-15
Three Neuvottelija conversations — with Petri Kajander, with Ville Tolvanen and Timo Savolainen, and with Mikko Alasaarela — split 'is AI a bubble' into three separate questions: what tokens actually cost, what capability means without understanding, and how fast anyone really adopts any of it. Here's where my guests agree, where they clash, and where I land. - AI and the Productivity Explosion: Who Actually Captures the Gains · 2026-07-15
From a three-fold productivity claim to a one-third unemployment scenario, three Neuvottelija conversations map the distance between AI augmenting work and AI replacing it — and what that gap means for a small, aging, indebted economy. - Local Models and AI Sovereignty: Why Owning Your Stack Is Becoming a Strategic Question · 2026-07-15
From Mac Minis running open models to accounts vanishing over one flagged word, two Neuvottelija conversations make the case for controlling your own AI stack — and for taking platform risk and EU rule-making seriously. - Mårten Mickos and the Silicon Valley Growth Formula · 2026-07-15
Mårten Mickos, the Finn who ran MySQL and HackerOne, explains why an hour in Silicon Valley is worth more than a million euros in Europe — and what his exponential clock speed means for Nordic software companies still thinking in straight lines. - From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering · 2026-07-15
Two Neuvottelija conversations, a year apart, show how AI-assisted software work moved from prompt-and-pray demos to disciplined agent loops — and what that shift demands of teams, specs, and security.