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The Control Gap: Who's In the Room?
The pharma launch market has settled the question of which tools to use. It still hasn't answered the only question that decides the launch: who is in the room. The short version: The platforms are real and the value is there, but the edge was never in owning the software. The gap nobody sells into is the person who runs it against your molecule, with authority to act. The 2027 launches that look effortless will belong to whoever put control back in the room. Six posts ago I
Jonathan Olsen
Aug 182 min read


The Control Gap: The Thesis
Every big firm is now selling the same pharma launch. Agentic. Sense-and-respond. "Launch as a learning system." They are all describing the same thing, and none of them is in the room when it fails. The short version: The big-firm launch point of view has converged, and the platforms behind it are real. Launches still drift anyway, because the gap was never structure. It was control. The question isn't which agentic platform to buy. It's who holds the loop closed when the ma
Jonathan Olsen
Jul 202 min read
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