5 Rules Before AI Agent Touches Your Data.
The post warns that autonomous AI agents often break when moved from test data to live client records, citing a 34% failure rate across 180+ implementations. It introduces a five‑step CALMER framework—Capture, Control, Bound, One‑task, and Stop—to enforce governance before agents touch production data. The author backs the advice with industry data from Stanford’s AI Index, Gartner projections, and real‑world client failures, emphasizing structured automation as the backbone and agents only at decision points. Tools like Composio, Temporal.io, and Langfuse are recommended to operationalize the rules.
AI Recommended Us. For the Wrong Thing.
The author discovered that ChatGPT was directing new clients to their secondary services—ClickUp and Pipedrive setups—rather than their core AI automation offering. This mismatch highlights a new SEO challenge: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), where AI models cite content based on...
4 Steps that Helped Me Find My Real Revenue Ceiling.
A founder grew a digital agency to 23 employees but saw flat revenue, then cut staff to 14 and lifted revenue by nearly 50%. The breakthrough came from a four‑step bottleneck audit that identified a single decision loop—personal approvals—as the...