Founders deciding whether AI is a product, a platform, or an expensive distraction.
A book for founders, operators, product leaders, boards, and investors
Before You Buy GPUs
What Leaders Get Wrong About AI Strategy, Cost, and Readiness
A practical, opinionated guide for leaders who need clearer AI decisions before spend, architecture, and operating burden become irreversible.
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AI strategy is not a shopping list.
Most companies do not begin with clarity. They begin with pressure. Pressure to look early. Pressure to sound modern. Pressure to buy capacity before they understand the workflow, economics, operating burden, or governance they are actually signing up for.
Before You Buy GPUs is a practical, opinionated guide for leaders who want an operating plan instead of an AI story.
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Who this is for
Built for leaders who must make decisions that survive production reality
Operators who need to turn ambition into workflows, owners, controls, and budgets.
Product and engineering leaders dealing with cost, reliability, support burden, and execution reality.
Boards and investors who want sharper questions before approving spend and strategy.
What readers get
Questions that sharpen strategy before the spend hardens
Why AI strategy often starts as a purchasing reflex instead of an operating plan.
How to distinguish workflow value from AI theater.
Where costs actually come from once systems meet production behavior.
How to evaluate whether owning infrastructure creates leverage or just overhead.
What leaders should align before committing capital, timelines, and credibility.
Advance praise
Advance praise
Perspectives from leaders in finance, law, product, and cybersecurity.
Matthew Loschiavo has written a book that speaks to far more than GPUs. Before You Buy GPUs is a clear-eyed guide to the larger discipline behind consequential technical decisions: when to build, when to buy, and how to distinguish momentum from readiness. Any leader responsible for major technology investments will find wisdom here.
Paul
Retired Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch; Retired Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps
Merrill Lynch; U.S. Marine Corps
In high-stakes environments, good outcomes depend on judgment, discipline, and the ability to see past noise. Matthew brings that mindset to AI strategy with rare clarity. This is a thoughtful, timely book for leaders who want to make serious decisions with seriousness.
Troy
Criminal Defense Attorney
At scale, the gap between a compelling narrative and an executable plan becomes impossible to ignore. Matthew Loschiavo closes that gap with precision. Before You Buy GPUs offers executives, product leaders, and operators a sharper framework for evaluating AI readiness, economic discipline, and the real burden of ownership before ambition hardens into cost.
David
Executive Leadership in Tech and Product; Patent Attorney
Too many technology decisions are made on the strength of capability alone, without equal regard for risk, control, resilience, and operational consequence. Matthew offers a more mature standard. Before You Buy GPUs is an incisive guide for engineering and security leaders navigating consequential choices in an era of mounting AI pressure.
Tom
Engineering Director, Cybersecurity
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