AI Agent Playbook

Norwest partner Sean Jacobsohn, with deep sales experience scaling HR and finance software companies to public exits, tests a CEO’s sales ability...

Healthcare AI adoption is concentrating on narrow admin tasks inside existing systems while governance controls lag.

• Targeted use cases: Agents...

• Akeyless Runtime Authority adds intent-based access control that evaluates agent actions in real time and blocks policy violations before...

Three projects highlight a clear shift: skill registries, shared gateways, and agent databases are emerging as core infrastructure.

• Skill...

An AI agent receives a goal, reasons via LLM, acts through tools, and adapts from results—unlike scripted chatbots that stall off-script.

Key...

Agentic commerce forces merchants to balance innovation against new liability risks from agent-initiated transactions.

• Universal Tokens preserve...

A signed term sheet is no guarantee of funding. Listen Labs abandoned its $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation after entering acquisition...

Harvey's leap to a $15.5 billion valuation after its latest $550M round reveals strong investor conviction that vertical AI agents can dominate...

Local AI deployment just got accessible via a clean UI wrapping llama.cpp, offering one-click model downloads and management for Gemma 4 without command-line or config hassles. This directly lowers barriers for experimenting with private agents.

Daloopa's Scout embeds an AI financial-modeling agent directly in Excel, letting analysts build and update models with plain-language commands while...

Hirschbach reduced days-to-bill from nine to three—a 60% cut—via Hyperscience AI document automation, accelerating cash flow in freight operations...

Small practices see fastest returns from administrative AI (intake, triage, scheduling) rather than clinical diagnostics.

• Separate by risk: Admin...

How is Forus deploying agentic coordination in healthcare supply chains, and does its funding story add up?

• Core approach: Each prescription gets a...

AC2's end-to-end platform for training and serving open-weight models is now in private beta, but the lack of public pricing and 'book a demo' model...

Traditional SaaS budgeting linked costs to headcount and seats, but AI spending scales with work performed by software, not employees.

• Activity...

• Brian Kelly runs Bracket22 investment firm using only AI agents instead of any employees.
• Wade Foster at Zapier deploys a "robot staff" of agents...

Private equity's back office is now strategic amid pressure on returns and four structural complexities: staged capital calls, waterfall profit...

Enterprises are moving from brittle RPA rules to AI agents that interpret data, decide, and act.

• Handles exceptions better: Rules engines escalate...

• Free tier caps at 50 tasks daily with basic access and standard speed
• Pro plan ($15/mo) adds 50k tokens, multiple agents, and workflow...

S-Docs shows how AI document agents can operate safely in regulated industries by routing every request through Salesforce governance, preserving permissions, auditability, and approval workflows even when initiated from external AI interfaces.