Kurt is the CEO of Machine-like, the Managed Agent Operations platform.
Founder, Machine-like
When a founder-operator introduces AI agents into business operations, the initial instinct is almost always protective: require an owner or senior manager to sign off on every individual action. It...
Every founder running a business between one million and ten million dollars reaches a point where manual reporting becomes unsustainable. As marketing programs expand across Google Ads, Meta...
For a founder running a business between $1M and $10M in revenue, cash flow friction rarely begins with bad intentions. It begins with administrative silence.
Every accounting firm knows the January dread. Preparers sit ready at their dual monitors, practice management software is configured, and yet almost no actual tax preparation occurs. Instead, staff...
When a prospective client contacts a law firm, the clock starts running immediately. In legal services, responsiveness often determines whether a firm signs a desirable matter or loses it to the...
Most AI business cases presented to business owners are built on an accounting illusion. A vendor or internal advocate tallies up minutes saved across routine tasks, multiplies that time by an...
When a founder signs a contract for a static website or an accounting software rollout, the finish line is straightforward. The pages render, the bank feeds sync, the invoices reconcile, and the...
Over the past two years, almost every founder running a $1M to $10M company has handed generative AI tools to their staff. You bought seats for chat interfaces, added AI writing assistants to your...
When Anthropic shipped Claude Cowork, it gave knowledge workers a tool that feels like a breakthrough. Instead of pasting paragraphs back and forth into a browser window, you can point Claude at...
A sales call closes, the contract gets signed, and the client appears eager to get started. The sales team logs the win, marks the deal closed in the CRM, and hands off the account to operations. On...
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