# Brendan Cody-Kenny: AI doesn't need to generate the presentation. It can read the user and compose what they need from the available material.

Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny

### 2026-10-08 update #ai #composition #publishing #substrate
AI doesn't need to generate the presentation. It can read the user and compose what they need from the available material.
- Traditional publishing fixes presentation: author → page → reader. AI makes presentation conditional on the reader, their context and their question.
- A knowledge bundle can contain the claim, evidence, sources, data, models and interactive artefacts without prescribing which of them every reader must see.
- The reader's AI chooses the useful composition: three sentences, source material, a chart, an interactive model, a counterargument, or nothing beyond the headline.
- This changes the publishing primitive. The valuable object is not necessarily a page; it is material that is discoverable, accessible and legible enough for models to compose.
- Substrate can stay simple: publish the bundle and links. Don't rebuild every presentation layer. Let the consuming model configure the explanation for context.

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