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The AI Harness for Commerce
Agentic AI
13 min read

The AI Harness for Commerce

Every brand can already access the same frontier models. Almost none can run their returns queue with one. The gap is not intelligence—it is the harness around the model: tools with authority, true context, a durable loop, hard constraints, and a verifier.

Sep 12, 2026
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The Digital BPO
Digital BPO
14 min read

The Digital BPO

The largest market in the U.S. is not e-commerce, cloud, or healthcare. It is labor. Teleperformance, Concentrix, Genpact, and TaskUs were built to arbitrage one human against another — the Digital BPO replaces the seat with software that produces the output of a human, without the human.

Apr 21, 2026
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