Kurt is the CEO of Machine-like, the Managed Agent Operations platform.
Founder, Machine-like
Five words get sold as five products. They are one dial with a price on each notch, and the notch you can afford to buy is rarely the notch you can afford to supervise.
Seventy-five terms sounds like a lot until you notice most of them are selling you something. The market for AI agents for business is arranged as a shopping problem: ranked lists, best-of grids, a...
AI agents for business get sold as a shopping problem, and the whole market is arranged to keep it that way: ranked listicles, best-of grids, a leaderboard of tools. That framing hides the actual...
> An AI agent implementation playbook is the ordered sequence that moves an agent from a chosen use case to trusted, unsupervised production. Its seven stages (scope, score, design, build, evaluate,...
> An AI agent risk assessment framework scores a single agent workflow on five factors (autonomy, reversibility, data sensitivity, customer impact, and auditability) to decide how much oversight it...
> AI agent security is the practice of capping what a deployed agent, and anyone who hijacks it, can do to the systems and data it touches. The agent's defining flaw, that it cannot tell data from...
> An AI agent governance framework is the set of runtime controls (scoped permissions, approval gates, exception queues, human review, audit trails, and a kill switch) plus the single accountable...
> An AI agent ROI measurement framework separates an agent's return into four classes (cost avoidance, capacity creation, risk and quality, and revenue lift) and measures each one on the clock it...
> AI agent performance metrics are the numbers a business tracks to confirm a deployed AI agent does its job correctly, safely, affordably, and fast enough to matter. We sort them into five...
> AI agent evaluation is the testing discipline that decides whether an agent can be trusted to own a business workflow. It runs on three surfaces: reliability (does the agent complete the job),...
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