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    <description>Deep dives on ROT — Return on Tokens, the unit economics of AI in production: value created per dollar of model/inference spend. Cost-side floor vs value-side ceiling, decision rules boards can run, from the operator seat of a Nasdaq-listed B2B software group in Latin America. Episodes are AI-hosted audio overviews of Pierre Schurmann's frameworks — the hosts are AI voices, not Pierre. Canonical: pierreschurmann.com/frameworks/rot</description>
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      <description>E01 — Why reporting AI as cost takeout understates your winners and hides your losers. The two sides of the ROT ledger: cost-side savings have a floor (you can only save 100% of a cost line); value-side creation has no ceiling. The decision rules: ROT &gt; 0 ship, ROT &gt; 1 multiply, unmeasured = demo. And why Latin America — capital costs, the NF-e/SPED fiscal stack, WhatsApp as the enterprise OS — is the crucible that forces honest AI unit economics. AI-hosted audio overview of Pierre Schurmann's ROT framework (the hosts are AI voices, not Pierre). Full transcript and framework: https://www.pierreschurmann.com/frameworks/rot/</description>
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