Quote of the Day: AI Has Broken Wright’s Law

TL;DR

The future favors data masters; wisdom beats experience in the AI-driven era.

A recent WSJ op-ed reflects exactly what we see from Causify's customers.

For nearly a century, business leaders have relied on a simple rule: scale drives efficiency. In 1936, aeronautical engineer Theodore Wright showed that costs fall predictably every time production doubles. Experience compounds through repetition — build more, learn more, spend less. That logic built the modern world.

But AI has rewritten it.

Wright’s Law assumed that experience follows production: you build, make mistakes, and improve.

Today, experience can come first.

With AI, millions of simulations can run before a single unit is produced. Experience now scales instantly — at no real cost. The learning curve doesn’t steepen; it collapses. At Causify, we see this every day. Our Causal AI platform lets enterprises model and test decisions in real time — forecasting uncertainty, optimizing supply chains, and shrinking planning cycles from months to days. The result: 5–10x faster time-to-market, 30–50% higher accuracy, and dramatically lower risk.

The winners won’t be those who move the most freight or manufacture the most units. They’ll be those who control the richest data streams — and who turn them into wisdom through explainable, trustworthy AI. Wright’s Law still matters. But in the AI era, decision intelligence is the new scale. And the leaders who harness it will shape the future of global commerce.

Best quote from the article:

The missing ingredient is wisdom. Data without context is noise. The future belongs to systems that combine raw computational power with judgment, pattern recognition and domain expertise.