Letter to Erik Brynjolfsson

You Called It CQO. I’ve Been Living It. An Open Letter to Erik Brynjolfsson Dear Professor Brynjolfsson, In your recent TIME piece on how AI changed work, you wrote that the most valuable workers of the coming decade will be “Chief Question Officers”—people whose primary job is knowing what to ask, why it matters, and how to evaluate whether the AI actually succeeded. Architects, not builders. That is the job I’ve been doing for nine years, long before I had a name for it—and the last four months have been a live-fire test of that CQO model at production scale. ...

February 20, 2026 · 10 min · 1987 words · Liana Banyan Corporation