Tag: AI agents
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The Insurance Carrier Is the Most Important UCP Node Nobody’s Talking About
Every piece in this series has an insurance carrier somewhere in the background. The carrier isn’t background — it’s the…
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What UCP Means for the Guy Who Does One Thing Really Well
The one-thing specialist built their business on referrals because referrals were the only discovery mechanism that worked. UCP doesn’t break…
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I Don’t Want a Smart Home. I Want a Sovereign One.
Every piece I’ve written about home agents has a question sitting underneath it I kept not answering: who does the…
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Agent Commerce Churn: Why AI Systems Abandon Transactions Mid-Flow
AI agents complete fewer transactions than humans. Here’s why agents drop carts, what merchants lose, and how to fix it.
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UCP in Your Kitchen
My refrigerator knows it’s running low on eggs. It doesn’t do anything about it yet. That gap — between a…
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I Want an Agent That Negotiates My Watch Service
Independent horology runs on the most opaque, friction-heavy commerce infrastructure I’ve encountered. Getting a watch serviced by the right person…
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What If My Golf League Ran on UCP?
I sponsor a B2B networking golf league built around the restoration industry. The commerce underneath it — sponsorships, registration, tee…
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The Phone Call Is the Last Legacy Protocol
Every service business runs on the same core infrastructure: the phone call. UCP threatens to replace it. The industries that…
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What Happens to Trust When an AI Books My Plumber?
The agent booked a contractor. You didn’t pick them, talk to them, or get a gut feeling. Do you feel…
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The Restoration Job That Books Itself
It’s 2:17am. Pipe burst in the basement. The homeowner doesn’t call anyone. They don’t have to. By the time they…