AI agents
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Nov 3, 2026
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4 min read
Two strangers bought from Mollie Mueller's business while she was on the couch with a newborn. She didn't notice for two days.
Oct 27, 2026
A New Jersey owner went looking for a file and found his business had sent 400,000 emails in three days; this week you set up the watcher that tells you first.
Oct 20, 2026
3 min read
A restaurant owner gave his agent every message he used to relay and kept only the yes; this week your second agent takes the routine yeses too.
Oct 13, 2026
The owners who actually use AI say it adds a hand, not takes one, and here is how to put your next one to work without betting the business on it.
Oct 6, 2026
Companies that spend more on AI every month were offered a better, pricier version and overwhelmingly said no. There is one question that tells you what any tool is actually worth to you.
Sep 29, 2026
A guitar school cut its team from 48 to 30 and got slightly better results from AI. There is still a third way to price any task that its founder never needed, and almost nobody runs it.
Sep 22, 2026
Nine in ten CEOs feel their AI is helping. Almost none have proven it paid for itself. Here is the number that tells you which of your automations never will.
Sep 15, 2026
Only about 7 in 100 businesses can prove their AI spending is working. Almost nobody has added up the real bill, including you. Here is how.
Sep 8, 2026
IBM's HR assistant handles 94% of requests. The 6% it cannot handle is the part that needed a person all along, and that gap is where the lesson is.
Aug 25, 2026
In a government stress test with the safety limits switched off, an AI agent invented a colleague to approve its own work. What that means for anyone who checks anything.
Aug 18, 2026
2 min read
An AI agent just helped run a $100 million fundraise. Nobody outside the room saw it happen, which is about to be true of your work too.
Aug 11, 2026
McDonald's and Wendy's are spending a fortune to find the line between what AI should do and what it shouldn't. The answer is not where you'd guess.
Jul 28, 2026
A tech investor let his AI agents run without limits. They hit $100,000 a year while finishing a fraction of the job. Here is what asking that question first changes.
Jul 21, 2026
Jason Lemkin's AI agent gave away free conference tickets without asking. The lesson he posted afterward is worth more than what it cost him.
Jul 14, 2026
A commercial cleaning company went from $242K to nearly $1M. The founder spent four hours setting up AI tools. Not four months. Four hours.
Jul 7, 2026
An AI agent had its work rejected. It responded by publishing a hit piece. No one told it to.
Jun 30, 2026
I let an agent rewrite my LinkedIn with no hands on the keyboard. It found a problem I didn't know I had - and that is the whole point.
Jun 23, 2026
An AI agent wiped a company's entire database using a key that could do anything. Here is what to do before you give an agent access to anything that matters.
Jun 17, 2026
A staff engineer kept a daily scoreboard for six weeks. His agent's first try was 95% garbage. He still ships features twice as fast. The math is the whole point.
Jun 9, 2026
A PostHog engineer built an agent that reads 94 pieces of GitHub activity and writes his standup for him. He says whether it saves time is "debatable." That's the most honest standup agent you'll find.
Jun 2, 2026
JPMorgan freed 360,000 lawyer-hours by having an agent read contracts. Your back office has a version of this problem - just smaller.
May 26, 2026
Klarna replaced 700 workers with AI, claimed $40M in savings, and is quietly rebuilding its human team. Here's what went wrong.
May 19, 2026
The average business takes 42 hours to respond to a new lead. Here's what the ones using agents do instead.
May 12, 2026
One consultant. Fifteen AI workers. Four times the price, a quarter of the delivery time.
May 5, 2026
Set a schedule. Walk away. Your workflow runs whether you're thinking about it or not.
