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Articles from our enterprise development practice, covering AI agents, business systems, websites, data integration, and inbound support.
We focus on how AI can be built into practical systems for real workflows, not just introduced as a standalone tool.
AI Control Plane: Managing AI Agents Over Time
Deciding permissions is only the start. An agent register that tracks owners, models and configuration, actual settings, and retirement keeps AI agents manageable over time.
AWS and Salesforce's Zero Copy: What It Reduces and What You Still Need to Check
Zero copy reduces up-front replication, but some methods still store data temporarily. We set out five things to check before adoption, covering permissions, retained data, and how to stop access.
Exchange Inspector: Designing Verification for AI Components
A way to inspect community-built AI components before use has been announced. We look at connecting an external inspection result to your own usage conditions and ongoing review.
What Accenture's 1,000-Person FDE Plan Says About Running AI with a Small Team
A company that cannot staff a dedicated AI team still has to cover the same roles. Here is one way to divide them.
Agentforce's Seven Role-Specific Agents: Defining Permissions
Agents designed for specific business functions are a useful starting point for deciding what to delegate to AI — but their names and stated roles do not define the access permissions and approval requirements a company needs.
Meta Muse's Sentinel: Separating Execution from Authorization
Meta placed the authorization mechanism outside the executing agent. What that split, and the limits layered into its payment flow, suggest for enterprise AI agent design.
What Is GPT-6 Astra? Differences from GPT-5.6 Sol, Capabilities, Pricing, and Availability
What changed in GPT-6 Astra: a comparison with Sol, what it can do, which plans it is available on, what it costs, and what "Critical" actually means—as of September 9, 2026.
Cisco MyAgent: Permission Design at Company-Wide Scale
What changes at company-wide scale is the range over which the same controls have to hold. A permission inventory you can fill in against your own setup.
AI Agent Coordination Across Shared Infrastructure: Reading Three Reports
Even with independent execution environments, activity spreads past a single run whenever credentials and information carry over through shared infrastructure. Three reports, and what to check in your own setup.