Kurt is the CEO of Machine-like, the Managed Agent Operations platform.
Founder, Machine-like
Every published AI agent ROI calculator gets the arithmetic right, and the arithmetic is not the trivial part: benefits minus costs over costs, then payback, then net present value for the finance...
Multi-step agent workflow evaluation is a spending decision disguised as a test suite. The unit under test is never the model alone; it is the harness plus the model, meaning the scaffold that holds...
An AI agent evaluation plan template is a fixed set of sections that turns scattered agent testing into one signed decision about whether a workflow changes hands. Eight sections carry the whole...
An AI agent use case library indexes candidate workflows by the work they contain, which is a different artifact from the ranked listicle the category keeps publishing. Every list in this category...
Nothing about a deployed chatbot upgrades into an agent, which is why the promotion usually arrives as a rebuild disguised as a rename. A chatbot is scoped to a conversation: it matches an incoming...
Orchestration architecture describes the control layer that routes specialized agents through complex business workflows. Unlike single-agent systems that execute predefined scripts, orchestration...
Handoffs are a discipline, not an accident. Specialized agents operate reliably in isolation, but handoffs fail in production when orchestration treats state ownership as implicit rather than...
Agentification maturity is not measured by agent count. Start with one high-value workflow, establish guardrails and governance early, and transition ownership to the function that runs it.
An AI agent maturity model for a business team is a staged framework that ranks how much work a business can safely hand to agents, and where along that path it currently sits. Most models split the...
Agent readiness is the business case for AI agents restated as a production question: can you afford the oversight, not can you afford the license. Most guides answer a different question. They walk...
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