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Do AI SDRs work? What AI sales agents deliver, where they burn domains and brand, the compliance rules, and when to assist, automate or replace by motion.
Agent evals must score a sequence of actions, not one answer. The five test layers, pass^k reliability, graders and release gates by action risk.
Buying an agent from every system of record recreates SaaS sprawl one layer up. How CIOs should choose, and which controls must stay central.
AI-generated fake receipts now beat visual review. How expense fraud changed, which detection still works, and the controls to use by company size.
Agents act through integrations. iPaaS and API vendors hold the connectors, credentials and audit trails, and MCP makes governing that layer worth more.
Every AI feature copies company data into prompts, logs, embeddings and memory. Where each copy lives, what vendors retain, and how to make deletion real.
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