The Widening Gap: Why We Are All About to Discover We Have Been Working in a Factory This Whole Time

In 1900 the wheelwright was a craftsman. By 1930 he was extinct. Not because his skill failed, but because the market quietly moved the goalposts. We are the wheelwrights now, and the gap is already opening.

An essay by Jamie Dixon, Founder of VAYRO, on why knowledge work is the next wheelwright trade, what the AI native operating model actually changes, and how UK leaders should think about the widening gap between firms that adapt and firms that do not.