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Founder, Marshal
Kurt is the CEO of Marshal, the Managed Agent Operations company that designs, deploys, and operates AI agents as critical infrastructure for founder-led businesses.
An AI agent evaluation plan template is a fixed set of sections that turns scattered agent testing into one signed decision about whether a workflow changes hands. Eight sections carry the whole...
An AI agent use case library indexes candidate workflows by the work they contain, which is a different artifact from the ranked listicle the category keeps publishing. Every list in this category...
Nothing about a deployed chatbot upgrades into an agent, which is why the promotion usually arrives as a rebuild disguised as a rename. A chatbot is scoped to a conversation: it matches an incoming...
Orchestration architecture describes the control layer that routes specialized agents through complex business workflows. Unlike single-agent systems that execute predefined scripts, orchestration...
Handoffs are a discipline, not an accident. Specialized agents operate reliably in isolation, but handoffs fail in production when orchestration treats state ownership as implicit rather than...
Agentification maturity is not measured by agent count. Start with one high-value workflow, establish guardrails and governance early, and transition ownership to the function that runs it.
An AI agent maturity model for a business team is a staged framework that ranks how much work a business can safely hand to agents, and where along that path it currently sits. Most models split the...
Agent readiness is the business case for AI agents restated as a production question: can you afford the oversight, not can you afford the license. Most guides answer a different question. They walk...
Five words get sold as five products. They are one dial with a price on each notch, and the notch you can afford to buy is rarely the notch you can afford to supervise.
Seventy-five terms sounds like a lot until you notice most of them are selling you something. The market for AI agents for business is arranged as a shopping problem: ranked lists, best-of grids, a...
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