About The Model

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Usman Khan

Director of Data Science & AI — Gulf States Toyota, The Friedkin Group

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The Model exists because most AI content is written by people who have never shipped a model to production.

I lead data science and AI at Gulf States Toyota — Toyota's distributor for Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, serving 156 dealerships. My team builds and deploys AI across the entire value chain: vehicle assignment models, supply-demand forecasting, dealer operations analytics, marketing spend optimization.

When I look for signal on what's actually happening in enterprise AI — not demos, not press releases, not vendor case studies — I struggle to find it. Most newsletters are either too academic, too hype-driven, or written from the outside looking in.

The Model is what I'd want to read every Monday. Practitioner-level. Specific. No agenda except getting it right.

What The Model is not:

  • Sponsored content or vendor partnerships
  • Generic AI news you can get anywhere
  • Thought leadership from someone who's never deployed a model
  • Daily noise — it's weekly, by design

What The Model is:

  • One issue, every Monday — 5 minutes max
  • Sourced from what's actually happening in production
  • Written for directors, VPs, and leads actually deploying AI
  • Free. Always.

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