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Latest — 14 Jul 2026

The SoW that felt like control

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

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The people furthest from the document

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

The schedule nobody reads

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

The phrases that mean nothing

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

The assumptions section is the tell

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

Where 10% of your contract value goes to die

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

The 40% problem

The statementofwork.org thesis: no one has become a perfectly productive company by adopting a better template - but it's a start. Generative AI has made SoW contracts even more customised, and that broad creativity is not helping anyone. Adopting a standard, machine-readible, architecture of a SoW gets

SoW Is Not a Strategy, for goodness sake.

Nobody buys a statement of work, or would think to buy a purchase order, or hire a work order or a permanent contract. They buy services. They hire people. The statement of work is the vehicle through which that purchase is documented.

AI Agents Are People (For Now)

AI that substitutes for a human is functionally 'headcount'. AI that optimises an already-automated process is just better software.

The Etymology of “Contingent”

The language we use to describe workers reveals how we value them. And for nearly half the modern workforce, that language is causing strife.