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    <description>Applied AI engineer in Singapore. 30+ projects for 20+ clients at Kuzushi Labs: agentic workflows, RAG and voice AI, from customer discovery to production.</description>
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      <title>A durable harness for patient work</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Checkpointed workflows, approval resume, effect identities and recovery semantics.</description>
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      <title>Booking under concurrency and time zones</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Slot ownership, race conditions, daylight-saving ambiguity, holds and rescheduling.</description>
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      <title>Confirmation is part of the workflow</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Proposal revisions, atomic idempotency and reconciliation after an uncertain write.</description>
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      <title>Context, memory and live updates</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Context ownership, token budgets, workflow events and end-to-end latency.</description>
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      <title>Evaluating complete patient workflows</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>A proposed 300-case benchmark, 24 starter cards, final-state oracles and repeated trials.</description>
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      <title>From language to domain actions</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Typed tool adapters, intent uncertainty, service contracts and bounded planning.</description>
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      <title>Making intent visible in the interface</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Editable action cards, stale-response protection and a typed Next.js navigation contract.</description>
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      <title>MCP, A2A and the tool boundary</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Scoped tool discovery, authenticated adapters and delegated task contracts.</description>
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      <title>Messaging connectors and delivery receipts</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Provider adapters, signed webhooks, preference checks and out-of-order delivery events.</description>
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      <title>Operating the platform: capacity, cost and recovery</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Worked CPU and memory sizing, concurrency, database pools, telemetry and recovery drills.</description>
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      <title>Patient identity and FHIR connectors</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Identity mapping, SMART authorization, FHIR R4 appointment contracts and write reconciliation.</description>
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      <title>Patient journeys beyond the chat</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Versioned journeys, transactional outbox events, worker leases and durable escalation.</description>
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      <title>Retrieval for policies and patient context</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Effective policy versions, authorized evidence, live records and retrieval evaluation.</description>
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      <title>Run the lab and ship one workflow</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Run the local example, reproduce failures and follow a staged implementation handoff.</description>
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      <title>Security at every agent boundary</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Actor and tenant scope, hostile tool output, constrained connectors and useful private traces.</description>
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      <title>Start with the patient workflow</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Durable patient records, a complete booking example and the implementation history.</description>
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      <title>Voice, multilingual input and human handoff</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>Final transcripts, Hindi/Hinglish fields, interruptions and acknowledged staff handoffs.</description>
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      <title>What Polsia and agent research change</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building agentic patient workflows</category>
      <description>A sourced comparison with Polsia and Hippocratic AI, plus five research-driven experiments.</description>
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      <title>Build a benchmark around the company’s promises</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Scenario manifests, reproducible fixtures, repeated reliability, failure severity and release gates.</description>
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      <title>A solo company is a set of promises that must be kept</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Why a solo founder needs connected commitments, records and decisions; a map of 11 core modules and 14 business walkthroughs.</description>
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      <title>An agent may propose a decision; an action decides whether it can happen</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>How a proposed action moves through validation, policy and approval, with stale-version checks and replay-safe effects.</description>
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      <title>Build one complete operating loop, then widen it</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>A staged implementation roadmap, connector sequence and an offline Python lab for approvals, replay and partial settlement.</description>
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      <title>The company needs a memory that can answer “what changed?”</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Typed business objects, state transitions, provenance and historical versions: the memory that holds the company together.</description>
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      <title>Campaigns and outbound: keep the send button separate from the draft</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Prepare outreach, check permission and sender readiness, retain approval and measure useful demand without hiding the send decision.</description>
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      <title>Concept to launch: help the founder decide what deserves building</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Turn an idea into a testable hypothesis, a build decision and a launch record without mistaking generated documents for demand.</description>
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      <title>Connectors translate the outside world into facts and receipts</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Email, forms, CRM, advertising and outbound messaging: existing simulations, live adapter contracts, receipts and reconciliation.</description>
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      <title>What does it cost to delegate a business task?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Measure cost per accepted task, include supervision and recovery time, and calculate acquisition payback without counting margin twice.</description>
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      <title>One customer journey across the loops</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Trace an enquiry through scope, delivery, billing and support with durable event identities, an outbox and explicit recovery.</description>
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      <title>A small deployment that can grow into a dependable platform</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>A proposed AWS and GCP architecture with durable storage, scoped identities, background work and recovery drills.</description>
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      <title>Documents, calendars and code: connectors for delivering the promise</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Versioned deliverables, scheduling intent, issue trackers and release evidence across an operating workflow.</description>
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      <title>Durable workers: the company must survive a process restart</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Leases, fencing tokens, outboxes, delayed work and recovery when the worker disappears halfway through a business action.</description>
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      <title>Evaluate the business state, not just the answer</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Test business states and irreversible effects as well as model answers; build replay scenarios for approval, isolation and recovery.</description>
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      <title>From shadow mode to a supervised operating loop</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>A staged adoption plan with measurable gates, operator review, stop controls and a current implementation inventory.</description>
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      <title>The harness coordinates the work; it does not become the company</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>A custom harness for bounded episodes, scoped tools, context assembly and cross-loop handoffs, built above the existing runtime interface.</description>
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      <title>Hire to productivity: treat capacity as more than a headcount</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Turn a capacity gap into a hiring decision, structured assessment and onboarding readiness while retaining human judgement.</description>
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      <title>Invoice to cash: a payment is a fact, not a reassuring message</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Move from a commercial commitment to invoicing, partial payment, duplicate receipt handling and an explainable outstanding balance.</description>
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      <title>Issue to resolution: make “resolved” mean the customer can move on</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Triage a complaint, gather evidence, resolve or escalate it, and control goodwill decisions with an explicit limit.</description>
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      <title>Lead to cash: make the commercial commitment explicit</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Turn a qualified lead into explicit scope, a reviewed quote and an accepted commitment that delivery can act on.</description>
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      <title>Connect the mailbox and CRM without losing ownership of the facts</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Incremental mailbox ingestion, contact identity, field ownership, draft review and uncertain sends.</description>
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      <title>Market to lead: turn an enquiry into a decision worth making</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Capture an enquiry, resolve identity, qualify fit and route an opportunity using the prototype’s concrete thresholds and handoffs.</description>
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      <title>A capability registry for tools the agent may actually use</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>MCP discovery, typed contracts, role intersection, connection aliases and controlled composition.</description>
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      <title>Memory that supports a decision without rewriting the company</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Versioned facts, evidence selection, retrieval boundaries and compact context for business agents.</description>
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      <title>Operate to improve: an agent should not grant itself more authority</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Evaluate an agent change, separate its proposer from its approver, and distinguish release-state simulation from real canary traffic.</description>
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      <title>Order to delivery: complete the promise, not just the task list</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Coordinate work orders, jobs, deadlines and proof of delivery so completion means the customer’s promise was fulfilled.</description>
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      <title>Parallel agents without conflicting commitments</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Structured concurrency, shared budgets, queue fairness and one owner for each business write.</description>
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      <title>Payment events, accounting entries and the meaning of “paid”</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Provider signatures, business deduplication, partial settlement, ledger posting and reconciliation.</description>
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      <title>Plan to performance: a dashboard should lead to a recorded decision</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Connect goals, forecasts, variances and reforecasting so the plan changes through a recorded decision.</description>
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      <title>Polsia and the systems around the autonomous-company idea</title>
      <link>https://arunank.com/writing/solo-platform/polsia-and-the-autonomous-company-landscape/</link>
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    <item>
      <title>Procure to pay: an approved need is not an approved payment</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Separate an approved need, purchase order, receipt, invoice match and payment instruction; walk through the local purchasing workflow.</description>
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      <title>Record to report: make the operating picture explainable</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Connect operational events to balanced postings and period review, with explicit reversal and duplicate-obligation handling.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>What agent research changes in this business platform</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>From ReAct and Reflexion to TheAgentCompany, τ-bench, Vending-Bench and adversarial tool use: concrete design consequences.</description>
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      <title>Retention and renewal: connect the support history to the next promise</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Connect support, delivery and payment history to a renewal decision without inventing customer health from sentiment alone.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Risk to control: the same rule must apply in every loop</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Apply shared controls across loops, separate requesting and approving actors, and test the limits of the current policy boundary.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Run the company lab: a quote, a lost receipt and a partial payment</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>A complete local walkthrough of the downloadable Python package, its failure cases and its implementation limits.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>The founder’s cockpit and the deployment behind it</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Design the founder’s approval inbox and a compact deployment with authenticated access, durable records and operating limits.</description>
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      <title>Three businesses you could model with these loops</title>
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      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Concrete operating blueprints for an AI services studio, a small B2B SaaS product and a specialist commerce business.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Trace the business task, then debug the agent</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Correlated runs, redacted evidence, useful service objectives and an incident walkthrough for uncertain external effects.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>When the customer document tries to become the system prompt</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Building a solo company with AI agents</category>
      <description>Prompt injection, tool authority, sandbox boundaries and adversarial tests for a business harness.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>From benchmark runs to a reproducible release</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>A practical release framework for base, adapted and quantized models: manifests, paired comparisons, regression gates, rollout and research references.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Reliability, release discipline and operational value</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Crash boundaries, outbox delivery, configuration consistency, deployment checks and the next steps toward a reusable harness.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>A shared agent service with tenant-level accountability</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Versioned control plane, tenant budgets, durable runs and protocol adapters.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>WealthOps: an executable financial-agent benchmark</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>Run 24 public English, Hindi and Hinglish scenarios through a local model, read-only tools and a strict outcome scorer.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Latency, concurrency and the cost of a completed task</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Critical-path analysis, nested limits, cache-aware accounting and load tests that reflect real agent behaviour.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Operate coding agents across editors and isolated workspaces</title>
      <link>https://arunank.com/writing/field/applications/coding-agent-operations/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>One editor/client protocol path, sandbox runtime and reviewed patch workflow.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>The operator console is part of the agent product</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>An inspectable path from a guest complaint to routing, prompt assembly, tool evidence, cost and a new regression case.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Coordinate remote specialists without losing accountability</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>An A2A coordinator and Google ADK specialist with durable task records.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Benchmark protocols for FinQA, FinanceBench and IndiaFinBench</title>
      <link>https://arunank.com/writing/slm/indiafinbench-audit/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>Pinned public datasets, candidate-only inputs, supplied-evidence versus retrieval protocols and comparable financial evaluation reports.</description>
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      <title>Judges, human review and regression evidence</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Groundedness versus helpfulness, evidence packets, paired comparisons, position bias and human calibration.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>An invoice operations agent with controlled tools</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>One correction workflow with approved MCP tools, receipts and reconciliation.</description>
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      <title>Evaluation starts with the operational scenario</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>A practical evaluation system for multi-turn booking, issue handling, tool correctness and release decisions.</description>
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      <title>Typed scoring for financial answers and agent traces</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>Numerical units, entity and date checks, evidence validation, missing-run denominators and executable scorer tests.</description>
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      <title>Prove a shared capability with a second customer team</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>One reusable contract, adapters and a supported integration path.</description>
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      <title>The control plane: changing behaviour without losing control</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Versioned prompts, tools, skills, agents and models; ownership, hot reload, deployability and reproducible releases.</description>
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      <title>On-premises serving: memory, latency and capacity</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>Weight and KV-cache calculations, a practical local deployment topology, workload matrices and reproducible latency measurements.</description>
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      <title>Recover durable work after a regional outage</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Restore task state, identity, artifacts and external-effect reconciliation.</description>
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      <title>One event spine, several ways to deliver the result</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Typed runtime events, SSE and synchronous projections, UI components, audit delivery and the boundary between generation and notification.</description>
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      <title>Update an embedding index while serving customers</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Versioned backfill, incremental catch-up and reversible query routing.</description>
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      <title>From a complaint to work that someone owns</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Issue intake, deduplication, staff availability, dispatch ladders, escalation and honest status updates.</description>
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      <title>A bounded runtime for financial agents</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>An executable local agent loop with trusted tool traces, household authorization, numerical provenance, deadlines and explicit failure outcomes.</description>
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      <title>Make the training run recoverable and economically bounded</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>One reproducible run with measured throughput and restart checkpoints.</description>
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      <title>Booking: let the model converse and the system decide</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Search, calendar verification, stable options, fresh checkout links and evidence-backed claims across multiple turns.</description>
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      <title>English, Hindi and Hinglish tool use</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>Multilingual financial requests become the same typed arguments, permission checks and evidence-backed outcomes.</description>
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      <title>Fit the workload, not just the model weights</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Compare context limits, concurrency and quantization for one quality target.</description>
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      <title>Authority, approvals and the trust boundary</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Separating conversational confirmation from authorization, scoping actions and designing durable human approval.</description>
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      <title>Share GPU capacity without breaking interactive work</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Separate admission and queues with explicit workload priorities.</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Tools as data, execution as a controlled boundary</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Compiling tool definitions into handlers, validating backend contracts and keeping model arguments inside authenticated scope.</description>
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      <title>Chat templates, loss masks and response contracts</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
      <description>A token-level walkthrough of prompt rendering, completion supervision, thinking controls and parser-compatible serving.</description>
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      <title>The model transport and the bounded agent loop</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Provider adapters, streamed tool arguments, cancellation, repair passes and the distinction between generated and deliverable text.</description>
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      <title>Find the bottleneck behind an apparently idle CPU</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
      <description>Diagnose one service with request tracing, profiling and dependency timing.</description>
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      <category>Engineering private financial AI</category>
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      <title>Plan model capacity from real token demand</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>FIELD applications</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>Separating conversation history, property knowledge and durable booking or issue state, with scope and freshness preserved.</description>
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      <title>Generate financial QA with executable answer checks</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>FIELD applications</category>
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      <title>Prompt assembly is an engineering pipeline</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
      <description>How two assistants assemble the right instructions, model and tool surface for each turn without becoming a swarm of agents.</description>
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      <description>The complete local architecture: adviser workflows, permissioned evidence, deterministic calculations, model decisions and reviewable results.</description>
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      <title>Fraud decisions with delayed evidence</title>
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      <category>FIELD applications</category>
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      <title>From an AI concierge to an operations system</title>
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      <category>Engineering agent harnesses</category>
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      <title>Ranking local services under live constraints</title>
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      <title>Align service behavior without rewarding confident errors</title>
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      <title>What a voice agent changes for the business</title>
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      <title>Improve tool use with a small, inspected dataset</title>
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      <title>Audit the financial model before another training run</title>
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      <title>A multilingual voice workflow with a staffed fallback</title>
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      <title>Running voice agents on AWS and GCP without losing the conversation</title>
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      <title>Evidence for operational anomaly investigation</title>
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      <title>From a repository issue to a reviewed change</title>
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      <title>When agent delegation earns its cost</title>
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      <title>Speech synthesis that can survive a real customer call</title>
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      <title>Useful memory without lost obligations</title>
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      <title>Investigations that survive waiting and restarts</title>
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      <title>Natural-language analytics with governed metrics</title>
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      <title>Self-hosted Whisper: streaming, scheduling and the concurrency trap</title>
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      <title>Financial research with inspectable evidence</title>
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      <title>Moving a service into customer ownership</title>
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      <title>Choosing the speech and reasoning models for a voice agent</title>
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      <title>A legacy connector with an honest recovery plan</title>
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