Archive - Andy Beach's Engines of Change

Founders Memo 003

Watch now | June 2026

Jul 7 • Andy Beach

0:49

What's Taking So Long?

Watch now | AI in the Content Supply Chain, Three Years In

Jul 5 • Rebecca Avery

9:53

Welcome to the In-Between

What these three series were building toward, and where it goes next.

Jul 3 • Andy Beach

June 2026

The Substrate Barons

Consolidation and the Recurring Pattern (Part IV and conclusion of the Control Layer series)

Jun 28 • Andy Beach

Someone Else’s Off-Switch

The access you treat as infrastructure can be switched off by people you never signed with and Fable 5 was the demonstration.

Jun 26 • Andy Beach

The Adjudicator

Capability and Authority in the Control Layer (Part III of the Control Layer)

Jun 21 • Andy Beach

You're the Product

The Audience Becomes the Asset

Jun 19 • Andy Beach

The Clubhouse and the Graph

What we call Hollywood is a 1917 industrial template inherited from Europe and the creator economy is a return to what came before.

Jun 14 • Andy Beach and Seth Hallen

The Capability You Buy Is Not the Capability You Get

One model, three permission layers, and a new gap between purchased capability and delivered work

Jun 12 • Andy Beach

The Credibility Surface

Trust Moves to the Substrate (Part II of the Control Layer)

Jun 7 • Andy Beach

The Third Language

What a hundred years of media history says about the vertical video gold rush

Jun 5 • Andy Beach

Founder Memo 002

Jun 2 • Andy Beach

2:47

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