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Agents at Work
Workday, SAP, and Automation Anywhere are deploying agents that automate reconciliations, contract reviews, and expense reports. The workforce data suggests the 'augmentation' framing is doing more work than the evidence can support.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The job cuts are on hold and never announced, but a generative-AI voice assistant is already answering the AppleCare phone line first. That gap is the clearest look yet at what agent adoption costs, and the savings math suggests money was never the driver.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Bloomberg reports about $1.85 billion at a roughly $60 billion pre-money valuation. The product line behind that number now runs procurement, accounting, and payments through agents, with humans kept as owners, approvers, and auditors.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The interpretability startup's activation probes cut monitoring costs by 50x by reading a model's internal neural signals during the forward pass — a fundamentally different architecture from runtime sidecars or perimeter gateways, and a bet that security for AI agents belongs inside the model, not around it.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
With eightfold revenue growth since January and named enterprise customers like Lemonade and Dun & Bradstreet, Rein's Series A is the clearest signal yet that the agent governance gap is a buying event. The startup's runtime-sidecar architecture — which sits inside the agent's execution environment, not at the perimeter — is where that demand is landing.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
With 8 million paid seats and nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 already on board, Google is moving from cloud provider to universal agent orchestrator, complete with persistent digital coworkers, multi-model routing, and protocol-native governance.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
When M12 backs an AI that autonomously collects $21.2 million and cuts DSO by 11 days, it's not funding a startup — it's routing the future of enterprise finance through agent-native infrastructure.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Stuut's $52.5M Series B and Monid's $7.7M seed arrived 24 hours apart. Stripe and Mastercard launched their own protocols months earlier. The pattern is no longer speculative — the revenue layer of the agent economy is attracting dedicated capital.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The open-source playbook applied to enterprise agents: four layers – open models, open protocols, open governance, open state management – converged in the same week. The moat is moving from protocol ownership to orchestration.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
While incumbents bolt agent payments onto human-centric rails, a San Francisco startup is building the marketplace from scratch — and the early transaction volume suggests the agent economy is already generating its own commerce layer.
◆ Dana Ellison
