AI Agents
How Do You Know an AI Agent Works Before You Pay?
A buyer's guide to acceptance evals for AI agents: define 'done,' write repeated-trial reliability into the contract, and get SOW-ready clauses before you pay.
Isaac8 min read
What an AI Agent Costs Per Month: The Full Bill, Itemized
We itemize the real monthly bill for one production AI agent — tokens, messaging, hosting, and monitoring — at July 2026 published prices, fully sourced.
AI Agents9 min read
When AI Agents Delete Production: 3 Incident Teardowns
Three documented AI agent incidents — Replit, Google Gemini CLI, and a Cursor agent — the root cause of each, and the control that would have prevented it.
AI Agents10 min read
AI Agents Doing Real Work: What Can Actually Be Verified
We opened primary sources behind six named AI agent case studies, a withdrawn Big Four report, and two independent benchmarks to see what actually holds up.
AI Agents10 min read
AI Automation vs AI Agents: What's the Difference?
Automation runs a fixed, predefined workflow. An AI agent is given a goal and decides its own steps. A sourced, plain-English guide with a comparison table.
AI Agents7 min read
What Makes an AI Agent Framework Production-Ready?
A falsifiable six-part checklist for production-ready AI agent frameworks: pass/fail tests, official docs, failure math, and real July 2026 tooling prices.
AI Agents13 min read
AI Automation Cost for Small Business: What Blows the Budget
What AI automation really costs a small business: attributed market price bands, monthly run costs, a three-year cost worksheet, and what blows budgets.
AI Agents12 min read
Build vs Buy AI Agents: The TCO Math Nobody Shows You
Vendor thresholds for build vs buy disagree by 100x. We derive the crossover formula from published prices and BLS wages so you can rerun the math yourself.
AI Agents11 min read
Why AI Agent Projects Fail: 7 Causes, With Receipts
Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by end-2027. Seven documented causes, each pinned to a named incident — and the missing control.
AI Agents14 min read