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AI literacy series

Mental models for business leaders, domain experts, and operators learning how to think about real agentic systems.

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The AI Agent Accountability Matrix: Who Owns a Failed Decision? illustration
July 20, 2026·15 min read

The AI Agent Accountability Matrix: Who Owns a Failed Decision?

AI agent failures cross models, tools, data, approvals, and operations. Use this accountability matrix to assign owners before the incident.

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AI Tokenomics: From Cost per Token to Cost per Trusted Outcome illustration
May 26, 2026·16 min read

AI Tokenomics: From Cost per Token to Cost per Trusted Outcome

AI tokenomics connects cost per token, agentic cost multipliers, routing, evals, governance, and cost per trusted outcome.

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The Autonomy Budget: How Enterprises Should Decide What AI Agents Are Allowed to Do illustration
May 23, 2026·12 min read

The Autonomy Budget: How Enterprises Should Decide What AI Agents Are Allowed to Do

A practical governance model for granting AI agents bounded authority based on risk, evidence, policy confidence, evals, and approval.

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AI Agents for Business Leaders: Build the Airport, Not Just the Plane illustration
May 13, 2026·20 min read

AI Agents for Business Leaders: Build the Airport, Not Just the Plane

A practical executive playbook for agentic AI: define the work, evidence, authority, scorecards, approvals, security, observability, and improvement loop.

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Before Your Team Asks for an AI Agent, Map the Real Work illustration
May 13, 2026·4 min read

Before Your Team Asks for an AI Agent, Map the Real Work

A practical guide for business teams mapping real work before building agents: actors, evidence, tools, decisions, risks, exceptions, and feedback loops.

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Trusting AI at Work: Approvals, Boundaries, and Receipts illustration
May 13, 2026·4 min read

Trusting AI at Work: Approvals, Boundaries, and Receipts

A plain-English guide to agent trust: what AI can read, draft, send, change, approve, and how receipts make decisions accountable.

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How to Judge AI Work: Scorecards, Not Vibes illustration
May 13, 2026·4 min read

How to Judge AI Work: Scorecards, Not Vibes

A practical guide for business teams evaluating AI agents with scorecards, examples, traces, human corrections, and launch gates instead of demos and vibes.

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AI Does Not Launch Once: Feedback Loops After Go-Live illustration
May 13, 2026·8 min read

AI Does Not Launch Once: Feedback Loops After Go-Live

A plain-English guide to operating agents after launch: corrections, recurring failures, proposal queues, rollout, rollback, and review.