No. 01
MarketingJuly 28, 2026
The agent-ready website: agents read your page, not your metadata
Google doesn't read llms.txt, and schema won't get you cited. What an agent-ready website actually needs today, and the new decision it forces on you.
Topic
AI agents
32 essays
No. 02
BusinessJuly 21, 2026
When AI agents start hiring humans — and on whose terms
AI agents are starting to hire and manage humans, not replace them. What matters is on whose terms your people enter the loop, and who is left liable.
No. 03
TechnologyJuly 19, 2026
Agent memory: why your AI has amnesia and what to do about it
Your AI agent forgets everything the moment a session ends. Here are the four kinds of memory it actually needs, and the practical ways to build each.
No. 04
TechnologyJuly 15, 2026
The web is adversarial now: what Google's prompt-injection scan means for your agents
Google logged a 32% rise in prompt-injection attacks. If your AI agent reads the open web, it's in hostile territory now, and here are three controls.
No. 05
BusinessJuly 14, 2026
Your AI bill has stopped being a licence and started being a meter
AI has stopped behaving like software and started behaving like a raw material. Budget it as a variable cost, cap it and meter only what pays its way.
No. 06
BusinessJuly 12, 2026
AI agents are not a staffing strategy
An AI agent can do the job but it can't be answerable for it. Why agents aren't a staffing strategy, and four questions to ask before delegating work.
No. 07
TechnologyJuly 10, 2026
Spec-driven everything: how to brief AI when the agent does the work
Agents now build whole tasks from your description, so your brief becomes the real work. What Notion's spec-driven workflow teaches about briefing AI.
No. 08
BusinessJune 30, 2026
Agent sprawl is the new shadow IT — and it's coming from inside the house
Big firms survive AI agent sprawl because they have a CIO; your small business doesn't. Here's a simple three-step protocol to contain it by yourself.
No. 09
BusinessJune 25, 2026
The agentic convergence trap: when everyone uses the same AI, nobody has an edge
The agentic convergence trap: when every rival runs the same AI, the plans converge. Your real edge is judgement, taste and the data nobody else owns.
No. 10
TechnologyJune 20, 2026
We are all directors now
AI gives everyone a film crew. The scarce job left is direction, and the film director is the best role model any of us have for surviving it all now.
No. 11
TechnologyJune 18, 2026
The Claude Cowork playbook: a non-developer's guide to desktop AI automation
A practical guide to using Claude Cowork: what it does well, where it still trips up, and how to brief it so it actually does finish the work for you.
No. 12
BusinessJune 11, 2026
GitLab is paying $35 million to become a small business
GitLab's restructuring spends $35m turning a 2,500-person business into 60 small teams. Small firms already have that shape. Here's how to keep yours.
No. 13
BusinessJune 7, 2026
Sold the agent, shipped the assistant
Most agentic software is assistive once it lands in your account. The questions to ask so you can tell roadmap from running product before you buy in.
No. 14
BusinessMay 28, 2026
The headless turn: what to renegotiate before your next SaaS contract
Per-seat pricing was a polite fiction. Four major vendors stopped pretending this fortnight. Here is what every SaaS buyer needs to renegotiate today.
No. 15
MarketingMay 21, 2026
Marketing's two-front war: when AI disrupts both the tools and the audience
AI is reshaping marketing on two fronts: the tools your team uses and the audience you reach. Most teams watch just one and miss the one that matters.
No. 16
TechnologyMay 17, 2026
The swarm tax: when adding agents stops being architecture and starts being theatre
Stanford research finds single agents usually beat multi-agent swarms on equal compute. The swarm tax is architecture inflation eating your AI margin.
No. 17
TechnologyMay 10, 2026
Agent-ready SaaS: when your API's real customer isn't a human
Intercom is rebuilding its product so AI agents, not developers, are the primary user. What changes for your docs, errors, pricing, auth, and roadmap.
No. 18
BusinessApril 25, 2026
Shadow agents: the enterprise governance crisis nobody planned for
Shadow AI agents running on staff laptops with live credentials to company systems. KiloClaw named the crisis — and most governance is lagging behind.
No. 19
BusinessApril 23, 2026
The platform tax: what Anthropic's OpenClaw ban means for agent economics
Anthropic just cut OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions on 4 April. The platform tax has arrived — and it changes how to build on any AI provider today.
No. 20
TechnologyApril 11, 2026
Claude Managed Agents and the infrastructure moment
Anthropic shipped Managed Agents in public beta this week. Not a capability breakthrough, but a friction breakthrough - and why friction matters more.
No. 21
BusinessApril 9, 2026
The agentic commerce reality check: what Walmart learned the hard way
Walmart's ChatGPT checkout converted three times worse than its own website. The Sparky pivot reveals a fundamental truth about who controls commerce.
No. 22
BusinessApril 4, 2026
When AI becomes the manager: why the middle management squeeze is the real disruption
Amazon cut 14,000 jobs citing AI, then Pinterest and HP. The real squeeze lands on middle management, not entry level — and on the trust trap beneath.
No. 23
BusinessMarch 30, 2026
Why agents mean this isn't a bubble — and what that means for your business
AI agents have rewritten the compute equation permanently. Ben Thompson argues this isn't a bubble — and your business strategy needs to catch up now.
No. 24
MarketingMarch 29, 2026
The agent-first brand: why your next customer won't have eyes
By 2028, Gartner predicts 90% of B2B buying flows through AI agents. Your brand now needs a schema as much as a soul. Most marketers aren't ready yet.
No. 25
TechnologyMarch 28, 2026
The march of nines: what 99.999% AI reliability actually requires
Each nine of AI reliability costs as much work as the one before it. Most businesses are at 90%. The march to production-grade agents is brutal maths.
No. 26
TechnologyMarch 22, 2026
The five levels of agentic software: where most businesses actually are
Most businesses think their agentic AI is at level three. Most are at one. A five-level framework for honest self-assessment and practical next steps.
No. 27
BusinessMarch 17, 2026
Agentic loops: the next operating system for your business
Forget workflows — AI agents run decision loops. Map where autonomous cycles belong inside your business, and you will outpace everyone else doing it.
No. 28
BusinessMarch 16, 2026
The agentic readiness gap: 85% of enterprises want agents, 76% can't support them
85% of enterprises want agentic AI but 76% lack the operational foundation. Why process visibility matters more than model capability.
No. 29
TechnologyMarch 11, 2026
When every device can think: the agentic everything future
Smart devices are becoming agentic systems that understand context, take bounded action, and quietly redraw work, authority, governance, and trust.
No. 30
BusinessMarch 4, 2026
The 50:1 AI org chart: why middle management is being redesigned for orchestrators
The 50:1 headline misses the point. Middle management is splitting into automation and stewardship in human+AI teams.
No. 31
BusinessFebruary 22, 2026
Your AI agent just went rogue: a practical guide to governance that works
Three real failures in one week made the case for AI agent governance. Here is a practical framework that keeps agents useful and controlled.
No. 32
TechnologyFebruary 16, 2026
Personal AI agents just got validated — and the race to bring them to everyone is on
OpenAI just acqui-hired OpenClaw's creator. Every major lab wants the personal agent layer. The question is who gets there first.