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Papers, benchmark reports, practitioner guides, and historical analyses on agentic AI, scheduling, and enterprise automation.

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2,963Users studied
1Patent pending
CasebookJuly 2026

The Casebook: Pilots Gone Bad

Ten real AI deployments that shimmered in the demo and vanished on contact with the world — Air Canada, Google Bard, Deloitte, Zillow, McDonald's, Klarna and more. Each case in STAR form, with the boardroom takeaway and the patterns across all ten.

  • 10 cases documented
  • $100B largest single loss
  • 5 recurring patterns
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Historical AnalysisJune 2026

The Second Act of the Agent Revolution

The dot-com boom was not special — it was one instance of a 200-year pattern. What railways, electricity, and the web teach us about where the agent boom is headed, and what the second act will be built on.

  • 2 Acts per adoption
  • 200 Years of the pattern
  • ~30yr Dynamo lag
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Industry ObservationMay 2026

RazorMetrics — The Growth Story Underneath the Growth Story

Inc. 5000 No. 18 and what fast-scaling healthcare reveals about coordination. When the visible growth story is only half the picture.

  • No. 18 Inc. 5000 USA
  • No. 1 Austin Metro
  • No. 5 Healthcare
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Research PaperMay 2026

Human-in-the-Loop at the Commit Point

Architectural patterns for trustworthy agentic AI deployment in enterprise scheduling. Introduces the Reversible/Irreversible Action Taxonomy and the HITL commit-point gate.

  • 4 patent claims
  • 95% time reduction
  • 26 references
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Benchmark ReportMarch 2026

AI Scheduling Benchmark Report 2026

Real production data from 2,963 users across 128 organizations. Request distribution, blocker analysis, cost efficiency, and global deployment metrics.

  • 1,318 AI requests
  • 128 organizations
  • 30+ countries
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Historical AnalysisMarch 2026

AI Is Having Its HTML Moment

In 1993 a new primitive rewired the whole stack. HTML created six compounding waves over 30 years. The prompt is doing the same — and the industry is only in wave one.

  • 6 Parallel waves
  • 1–2 Wave we're in
  • 0 AI W3C equivalents
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Practitioner Guide2026

7 Types of AI Agents: Architecture Guide

A decision framework for matching agentic AI architectures to enterprise workflows. Seven patterns from basic tool agents to dynamic spawners, with complexity and governance guidance.

  • 7 architectures
  • 5 deployment scenarios
  • 7 governance questions
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Historical Analysis2026

Evolution of Digital Assistants

A 60-year history from IBM's 16-word Shoebox to modern agentic AI. The five eras, the intelligence-agency gap, and the three technical developments that finally closed it in 2025.

  • 60+ years covered
  • 5 eras
  • 11 timeline milestones
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