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Agent interop standards are not neutral plumbing. Whoever owns the protocol layer between agents and enterprise systems owns the distribution chokepoint.
Route 60-80 percent of production traffic to small models with a quality fallback. The four routing architectures, the eval signals, and the failure modes.
Shadow AI explained: the three exposure classes, why bans fail, how to detect unsanctioned tools, and the tiered governance model that survives contact.
AI capacity is consolidating into a utility with three chokepoints. The strategic question is no longer which model to use, it is who controls your inference.
Treasury for growing companies: the maturity progression, the lessons that stuck after 2023, operational controls, new instruments, and when to buy a TMS.
Tech hiring is barbelling: fierce competition for senior talent and cheap junior capacity, with the middle squeezed out. This is structural, not a hype cycle.
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