The Defensible Zone
The part of your professional identity that AI has the hardest time reaching. The framework behind everything I write and build.
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Dilip Chetan
Where can you still stand that AI can't reach? Twenty years inside the companies building it taught me how to find out.
Twenty years across Oracle, Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Meta. Direct work on AI infrastructure and generative AI at Google.
My work centers on one question: where can you still stand that AI can't reach?
I write essays and build frameworks. I run role-specific assessments at Defensible Zone™. I coach executives, speak to organizations, and advise founders on which products have durable moats in an AI-shaped market.
Ideas
More to come.
Twenty years at Oracle, Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Meta.
Direct work on AI infrastructure and generative AI at Google.
Three graduate degrees: MBA, Computer Science, Human Factors (the science of human-systems design).
Where to go next
The Ideas
The frameworks behind the work.
Find Your Defensible Zone
Role-specific assessments for Doctors, Engineers, and Designers.
Work With Me
Coaching, speaking, and advisory.
Know exactly where AI can't touch you.
Then stand there.