Situation Room
June 7, 2026 The Loan Officer and the Algorithm
The year's clearest AI governance text came from the Vatican. It draws one line every enterprise now has to draw for its agents. Read more May 31, 2026 The Agentic Shift: The deal you never made
Your business negotiates what justifies the effort. Agents can negotiate everything else. Here is what that changes. Read more May 26, 2026 The Grammar of Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce — identity-verified, payment-executed, refund-capable — is six months away. This is the infrastructure map your programme needs now. Read more May 20, 2026 Uncomfortable Truth
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: you already have enough AI perspectives. Read more May 17, 2026 The Agentic Shift: The Librarian and the Revolutionary
One word changed the Odyssey. The word was always there. It took 400 years and a different perspective to see it. Read more May 13, 2026 Situation Room Update: The Storefront Is Moving. Is Your Brand Where Agents Can Find It?
Amazon made agentic shopping the default this week. Walmart's agent lifts baskets 35%. The storefront has moved. Is your brand there? Read more May 10, 2026 The Agentic Shift: The Checkout Page Is Gone. Nobody Built What Replaces It.
Agentic traffic rose 450% last year. Authorization systems weren't built for it. Neither were your dispute flows. Read more May 3, 2026 The Agentic Shift: The Prediction Is Landing
The infrastructure for agentic commerce is going in. Jamie Smith and I saw it coming. Here is what we built — and why it matters now. Read more April 26, 2026 The Agentic Shift: When Agents Act, Who Can Stop Them?
As agents move from assisting to acting, enterprises need a circuit breaker: clear authority, contracted duties, and auditable evidence. Read more April 22, 2026 Situation Room Provocation: What the Octopus Teaches Us About Agentic AI
How agents learn, adapt, and find weaknesses that human-designed processes leave behind Read more