Google launched AI checkout at scale. Your store is in the system. You still won't appear.
Google launched AI checkout at scale. Your store is in the system. You still won't appear. Here's the part nobody is explaining.
Google launched AI checkout at scale. Your store is in the system. You still won't appear. Here's the part nobody is explaining.
I set out to build a DTC store almost entirely with AI.
Not all business relationships do the same job. Research shows which ones survive the agentic economy, and which were always just expensive due diligence.
The COO's job in an AI-first company is to build the operating system the company runs on. Here is what that OS looks like and how to build it.
Agents won't kill business relationships. They'll sort them. The ones doing low-value information work will quietly become unnecessary. The ones doing the hard human jobs will become rarer, and more valuable.
Five things AI can't replace: trust, context, distribution, taste, and liability. These aren't product categories. They're structural layers that become more valuable as AI gets better, not less.
I spent the first three months treating AI like a calculator. Type a question, get an answer. Occasionally useful, mostly generic.
You're probably sick of being told to learn AI tools. But this isn't that post.
The agent hype isn't about AI capability. It's about human org design, and we're copying the wrong thing.
You've probably noticed I'm writing a lot. Here's why I keep going anyway.
For most of human history, the most valuable place to be was the middle.
Nobody designed the org chart as a management philosophy. It was infrastructure.