AI Agents

I tested 5 AI slide agents to cut deck time from 8 hours to 90 minutes. What matters for marketing stakeholder presentations: clarity over flash, data https://www.generativeaipub.com/p/the-best-ai-presentation-agents-ive …more

Apple just gave Siri an actual job. iOS 27 rebuilt it from the ground up. Siri now understands context across every app on your phone — messages, notes, photos, email — and takes action across all of it. Not just answers. Actions. After a week with the developer beta, TechTiff is handing her iPhone real work. The phrase "I never said that" has officially had its run. Siri has receipts now. For anyone thinking about where AI assistants are heading — and what that means for how people research, decide, and buy — this is worth 10 minutes. Full guide → https://techtiff.substack.com/p/ios-27-siri-guide …more

Vertical agents are eating horizontal solutions. If your positioning still sounds like it's for "enterprise companies," you're already behind. The rise of vertical agents is not just another AI trend. It's proof that generic positioning is dead in B2B tech. Buyers don't want tools that claim to solve everything for everyone. They want solutions built for their specific workflow, their industry, their exact problem. I've worked across five enterprise tech companies, and the pattern is consistent: the marketers who win are the ones who can translate deep technical complexity into precision. Not simplification. Precision. Most B2B tech marketers treat complexity like a problem to bury. They strip out the technical depth, slap on broad value props, and hope something sticks. But in a world where vertical agents are winning because they go narrow and deep, that approach fails. The marketers who thrive in this environment don't run from complexity. They channel it. They understand the product well enough to know exactly which technical capabilities matter to which segment. They know the buyer well enough to speak their language without dumbing down the tech. That requires work most competitors won't do. It means sitting with engineering. It means listening to sales calls. It means understanding not just what the product does, but why it matters in the context of a specific buyer's day-to-day reality. Vertical agents are forcing this shift faster than most content strategies can adapt. If your messaging still sounds interchangeable with your competitors, if your technical story is not connecting with the audiences you need to reach, the gap will only widen. If your positioning feels too broad or your technical story is not landing, let's fix it. DM me. I'll review your approach and show you three things you can tighten this week. https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-06-12 …more

I wrote this with Claude, who scheduled it with Radi8, all from one chat on my iPhone… in bed. That sentence used to be impossible. In the last hour, from this exact chat, I drafted and scheduled three LinkedIn posts across two different brands — one for Radi8 and two for my personal account. Different audiences. Different voices. Different goals. All from one Claude conversation. On my phone. Under the covers. No app-switching. No logging in and out. No copy-paste between tools. I told Claude what I wanted, it pulled the right brand context for each account, drafted the posts in the right voice, and scheduled them at the times I asked for. This is what we built Radi8's MCP server for. For an agency managing 10 or 20 client brands, this is the difference between social media being a desk job and it being something you can actually run from anywhere. Waiting for a flight. Between meetings. Sunday night clearing the week ahead. Monday morning before you've even had coffee. Each brand stays fully isolated — its own voice, its own context, its own connected channels — but every one of them is reachable from a single Claude chat on whatever device you happen to have with you. The operational chaos that used to require a desk and six browser tabs now fits in your pocket. If you run an agency and this sounds like the unlock you've been waiting for, try Radi8 free for 14 days. Connect it to Claude once, and start managing every client from one chat. https://www.Radi8.com …more

Brian Solis argued at SXSW that augmentation is the new productivity: most people use AI to do what they already know. For founders this matters because the biggest gains come from changing how decisions are made, not just automating tasks. Three practical steps I use with startups: 1) Map core decisions and the inputs that drive them. 2) Prototype one augmented workflow in two weeks and measure decision speed and quality. 3) Standardize prompts, tests, and handoffs so the capability scales. If you want templates or pilot intros, send me a message. #AI https://briansolis.com/2026/03/worth-magazine-covers-brian-solis-keynote-at-sxsw-2026-augmentation-is-the-new-productivity/ …more

Silicon Valley’s new frontier isn’t writing every line of code. It’s deciding what AI agents should do and how to evaluate them. From building startups and running accelerator programs, I’ve learned three practical rules for being agentic: 1) Define the objective, success metrics, and hard constraints up front. 2) Decompose work into discrete agent tasks with clear inputs and outputs. 3) Instrument feedback loops and human checkpoints to catch drift and control cost. If you’re rethinking roles or workflows for agents, send me a message. #AI https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-agentic-individuals-future-of-work/ …more

As founder of Radi8, I see how many small business owners dislike posting but know they must stay visible. Today Radi8 introduced CMO Agent, an AI agent that builds your digital marketing strategy, coordinates content creation, and schedules posts. It turns marketing from a time sink into a reliable system so you can stay engaged without extra hours. See for yourself at https://www.radi8.com #smallbusiness …more

As covered in Forbes, Joe McKendrick summarizes Brian Solis' ServiceNow research on human + AI. The core mistake I see is treating AI agents only as task replacers instead of partners. From building startups and launching programs I learned three practical steps: map workflows to define human/agent decision points; measure quality and trust, not just speed; run small frontline pilots with clear handoffs and governance. Send me a message to discuss pilot designs. #AI https://briansolis.com/2026/03/forbes-publishes-brian-solis-latest-ai-research-the-biggest-mistake-companies-are-making-with-ai-agents/ …more

A recent piece from Santa Cruz Works flipped the AI debate: instead of replacing people, some bots are now hiring humans for on-site tasks. From program launches I worked on, two practical lessons stand out: 1) prioritize skills that require presence and judgment, like operations and customer-facing problem solving; 2) practice turning manual work into repeatable processes that pair with automation. Want help mapping concrete projects to build those skills? Send me a message. #careers https://www.santacruzworks.org/news/rent-a-human-because-the-future-finally-realized-it-still-needs-legs …more