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Agents at Work
The enterprise AI execution layer isn't a model problem. It's a governance problem – and the startup solving it just raised a Series A to sit between your agents and your production systems.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
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 Ellison
Agents at Work
Northslope, a Palantir Vanguard Elite partner, gives OpenAI instant access to the enterprise clients where Palantir has already done the hard integration work.
◆ Dana Ellison
