Marvin Harris

I write about ways to build digital employees by becoming a THINK Strategist.

HOW TO DECIDE IF YOU SHOULD BID ON A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT

A practical way to evaluate fit, identify gaps, and make better bid/no-bid decisions before committing your capture and proposal resources.

Sep 7, 2026

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2 min read

Stop Searching for Government Contracting Opportunities

Build a repeatable system to find, filter, and qualify opportunities.

Aug 30, 2026

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6 min read

9 Questions That Turn an AI Email Assistant Into a Teammate

Everyone's making AI email assistants. Nine questions convert assistants into teammates.

Aug 23, 2026

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3 min read

12 Months From Now. Where Are You? What Have You Done?

I met a home care owner at a chamber event. He didn't want a bigger business; he wanted his company to run without him.

Aug 9, 2026

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"I May Never Read Email Again." We Set It Up In Ten Minutes.

A partner asked if a digital employee could read his email. Her name is Nova Bennett.

Aug 2, 2026

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Are You Finding Grants Too Late

Meet Chet. He reads the funding notices, the agency postings, and the deadlines nobody has time to check. He is a Digital Employee.

Jul 26, 2026

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3 min read

Get a Morning Briefing from Sarah Grant

She reads my calendar, inbox, and pipeline every morning. She is a Digital Employee.

Jul 19, 2026

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3 min read

June Team Recap: DE Hires, Failures, and One Discovery

The full picture of what my DE team did in June — new hires, what changed, where I failed, and what I uncovered.

Jul 12, 2026

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2 min read

Hire a teammate, not an agent

Take a different approach to using AI than most people.

Jun 21, 2026

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My Digital Employee changed my business

One of my digital employees, Sarah, recommended that I become a digital staffing firm. She was 100% correct.

Jun 14, 2026

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How I'm using Digital Employees (Failures Included)

A new monthly summer series showing how I run the THINK digital employee system, so you can build your own.

Jun 7, 2026

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9 in 10 firms are seeing no results from AI tools.

They are missing the person with the system. Are you one skill away from being the answer?

May 30, 2026

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PwC reported that workers with AI Skills Earn 56% More Income. What Does This Mean for You?

Employers have repriced salaries. Here is your next move.

May 23, 2026

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Gallup Report: 50% of U.S. Employees Now Use AI. Build a Digital Employee to Find Who Needs Your Expertise.

The companies hiring for AI roles right now are telling you exactly what they need. One Digital Employee reads the signal. You show up with the fix.

May 16, 2026

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90% of Large Companies Face an AI Skills Shortage. Your Next Opportunity Is One Radar Away

Identify your next opportunity by seeing what others cannot. Run a Radar.

May 10, 2026

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They're Not Firing You. They're Making Non-Strategists Optional.

A quiet job-reduction playbook is underway. Here’s how to stay ahead of it.

May 2, 2026

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Oracle Laid Off 30,000 Employees by Email. Here Is How to Identify a Capital Event Cluster Before Others See It.

Oracle's layoff signal was years in the making. Most people don't have a system to see signals until it is too late. Use this 3 step system to build a monitoring system with a digital employee and your thinking.

Apr 25, 2026

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4 min read

$1 MILLION IN WORKFORCE FUNDING. ONE CAPITAL EVENT SIGNAL. HERE IS WHAT A STRATEGIST DOES WITH IT.

The Maryland signal, the federal signal behind it, and the formula a strategist uses to read both.

Apr 11, 2026

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PMI Changed 26% of the PMP Exam. Here Is What One Strategist Found With a Pre-Diagnostic.

One diagnostic. 20 leads. Here's how she became a category of one.

Mar 28, 2026

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$11.1 Billion in HRSA Grants Hit Healthcare Nonprofits Last Year. Here Is the Formula To Find Capital Event Signals.

Run the 3-layer Capital Event formula to detect a market and position for a category nobody owned.

Mar 21, 2026

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5 min read

$5 Billion Was Approved. 500 Jobs Promised. One Scan Revealed a Gap.

The step-by-step scan to find your market's capital event, build the playbook, and deploy a Digital Employee to capture it.

Mar 14, 2026

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$150K Grant Hit My Community. One Strategist Acted. They Won in 7 Days.

One blindspot scan. Three contacts. One award. Here's how it worked.

Mar 7, 2026

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6 min read

89% of AI Agents Fail. Here is the 'Boring' Skill Teams are Missing.

Why the ‘Prompt Engineer’ is already obsolete and how to become the Orchestration Engineer your team needs.

Feb 28, 2026

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AI Displacement is here. Are you agentic native yet?

The workers getting replaced aren't failing. Their workflow is.

Feb 21, 2026

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Bosses See 8 Hours Saved. Turn your thinking into an asset to become irreplaceable

The method that shifts you from being automated to owed expertise.

Jan 24, 2026

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6 min read