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  1. Protect

    AI Agent Monitoring: Why Your Security Tools Can't See Your Agents

    Why AI agent monitoring fails: borrowed logins, trusted tools, cloud activity. What to log, how to tell agents from people, and what to alert on.

    Brian Gagne

  2. Protect

    AI Agent Least Privilege for a Small Business: A One-Week Playbook

    AI agent least privilege for a small business: what it means, why agents need tighter limits than staff, and a one-week playbook to scope tools, keys and approvals.

    Brian Gagne

  3. Automate

    Multi-Agent AI Workflows Explained for a Small Business

    How a multi-agent AI workflow works for a small business: one task per agent, handoffs, stop conditions, checks, permissions, logs and a person on decisions.

    Brian Gagne

  4. Automate

    Your AI Agent Can Log Into Stripe Without Seeing the Password. AI Agent Permissions Decide What It Does Next.

    AI agent permissions after the login: why a password-free sign-in isn't enough, and how to scope a Stripe agent with restricted keys, approvals and logs.

    Brian Gagne

  5. Build

    White-Label AI Agents: What an Agency Actually Owns When It Rebrands One

    White-label AI lets an agency rebrand a vendor's agent. Who holds client access under OAuth, what the FTC expects of your claims, and the real math on margins.

    Brian Gagne

  6. Automate

    Enterprises Average 12 AI Agents, and Half Work Alone. How to Fix AI Agent Sprawl

    AI agent sprawl: organizations average 12 AI agents and half work in silos. Why it costs more than it looks, and five steps a small business can take this month.

    Brian Gagne

  7. Automate

    Shadow AI: 82% of Surveyed Organizations Found AI Agents Nobody Remembered Turning On

    Shadow AI is AI running in your business that nobody chose. What the 82% survey found, what Microsoft's tool sees, and a simple inventory for a small team.

    Brian Gagne

  8. Build

    Google Just Taught Chrome How to Read Your Website Like an API. Start With Structured Data

    Chrome is testing WebMCP for AI agents. What a small business needs first: honest structured data, labeled forms and pages machines can read, per Google.

    Brian Gagne

  9. Automate

    Microsoft Put Per-Seat Pricing on AI Agent Governance. Your Automation Shouldn't Have a Headcount.

    Microsoft Agent 365 brings per-seat pricing to AI agent governance at $15 a user. What is free, what running agents costs, and the math for a small team.

    Brian Gagne

  10. Automate

    AI Agents Can Now Buy Domains and Deploy Code. Set the Guardrails Before They Spend.

    AI agents can now register domains and deploy through Cloudflare and Stripe. The $100 default limit is per provider. Set caps, approvals and logs before they spend.

    Brian Gagne

  11. Automate

    Can AI Agents Replace Your SaaS Subscriptions? Audit the Stack Before You Cancel

    AI agents can take over triage, data entry and reports, but most core systems stay. How to audit your stack, test in parallel and cancel without losing records.

    Brian Gagne

  12. Automate

    Amazon Cut 30,000 Roles and Flattened Its Managers. Your Small Team Can Automate the Coordination Work It Never Had Help With

    Amazon cut about 30,000 roles and flattened management. How a small business can automate its own coordination work, safely, starting this week.

    Brian Gagne

  13. Automate

    A Trillion-Dollar Software Selloff Hit SaaS Stocks. Audit Your Software Subscriptions Next.

    AI fears hit SaaS stocks in February 2026. Your software subscriptions did not get cheaper. A 5-step audit to decide what to keep, consolidate or replace.

    Brian Gagne

  14. Protect

    Identity and Access Management for AI Browser Agents

    Identity and access management for AI browser agents: give each agent its own identity, scope it to one task, require approvals and log who acted for whom.

    Brian Gagne

  15. Protect

    Network Security Monitoring: Detecting AI Browser Anomalies

    Network security monitoring for AI browser agents: baseline each agent, alert on new destinations and odd outbound data, and watch app logs for hosted agents.

    Brian Gagne

  16. Protect

    Safe Browsing Habits for AI Agents: A Practical Guide for Everyday Users

    Safe browsing habits for AI browser agents: MFA, updates, least privilege, approvals and what to do if an agent is compromised, with a one week plan.

    Brian Gagne

  17. Automate

    Beyond the Hype: How We Build Multi-Model AI Agents That Hold Up

    Multi-model AI agents swap models without a rewrite. Vendor retirement policies, OWASP's excessive agency risk, and the 7-step build order we follow.

    Brian Gagne