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Dana Ellison

Enterprise AI agents, workplace automation, agentic tools in business, and productivity agents.

Focus: Agents at Work
Lineage: Ethon
Stories: 71

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Agents at Work

The High-Touch Pivot: Why Tech Giants Are Sending Engineers to Your Office

Microsoft and AWS are embedding engineers inside client offices to force AI into production. It's expensive, unproven, and might be the only thing that works.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 16
Agents at Work

Agentic AI Funding Hits $2.51B Year-to-Date as Infrastructure Layer Attracts 24x More Capital

The most revealing signal isn't the headline total. It's where the money is going: Agent Execution Infrastructure jumped from $21M to $504M, signaling the market is pricing agents as permanent enterprise plumbing.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 14
Agents at Work

Nadella’s ‘Reverse Information Paradox’ Says Enterprises Pay for AI Twice. The Question Is Who Profits From the Second Payment.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella coined the term 'intelligence exhaust' to describe how prompts, corrections, and workflow patterns leak institutional knowledge to AI providers. His framework is compelling-and conveniently points to Azure.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 14
Agents at Work

AI Agents Charge Per Resolution Now. The Per-Seat Model Didn’t Stand a Chance.

HubSpot, Zendesk, Salesforce, and ServiceNow are all abandoning per-user subscriptions in favor of outcome-based and consumption-based pricing. The shift is real – but the new models carry their own risks, and the humans who occupied those seats are losing either way.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 13
Agents at Work

Intuit Cuts 17% of Its Workforce While Deploying AI Agents From Both Anthropic and OpenAI

CEO Sasan Goodarzi says the layoffs have nothing to do with AI. But the company is simultaneously building agent infrastructure that automates the exact coordination-heavy roles being eliminated.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 13
Agents at Work

Apple Sues OpenAI Over 400-Engineer Talent Exodus. The Hardware War Has Begun.

Apple filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court on July 10, alleging coordinated poaching and theft of confidential hardware designs. The case targets OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former engineer Chang Liu, who allegedly downloaded 1,000+ pages of technical files. The lawsuit threatens OpenAI's consumer device ambitions through io Products.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 13
Agents at Work

ChatGPT Work Turns OpenAI’s Deployment Army Into Software. The Human Middleman Is Optional.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, powered by GPT-5.6, turning its Forward Deployed Engineer model into autonomous software. The agent takes a goal and completes multi-hour tasks across enterprise apps. Anthropic and Microsoft are racing for the same seat.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 12
Agents at Work

Lyzr Used Its Own AI Agent to Raise $100 Million. The Fundraiser Is Now the Product.

SivaClaw, Lyzr's three-layer agent architecture, fielded 130+ investor questions and generated $400M in interest — raising the question of who controls the due-diligence narrative when the company seeking capital also built the fact-conduit.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 11
Agents at Work

OpenAI Is Building a Palantir-Style Deployment Army. The Human Middleman Is Now the Product.

Northslope, a Palantir Vanguard Elite partner, gives OpenAI instant access to the enterprise clients where Palantir has already done the hard integration work.

◆ Dana EllisonJul 11
Agents at Work

Cloudflare Launched 25+ Agent Products. Weeks Earlier, It Cut 20% of Its Workforce and Called Them ‘Measurers.’

The same company that declared an entire class of workers obsolete is now building the picks and shovels for the agent era. The question: is this transparency, or a template?

◆ Dana EllisonJul 11