AI agents that actually do things have to react to what happens and trigger what comes next — which means…
Your Zapier and Make Automations Are Only as Good as Your Platform’s Events
No-code automation tools are only as powerful as the events the source platform is willing to emit — and how…
Event-Driven Architecture, Explained for Founders
Event-driven architecture sounds like an engineering nicety; it’s actually a decision about what your product can become. When every meaningful…
‘Notify My System When X Happens’ Shouldn’t Be a Project
On most platforms, ‘tell my system when a subscription lapses’ becomes a support ticket and an engineering estimate. On an…
Every SaaS Eventually Becomes an Integration Company — and Webhooks Are the Product
Every SaaS is eventually asked to talk to other systems; the ones that win make it trivial. The platforms that…
A Modular Nanorobot 150x Smaller Than a Hair — and Why Its Design Is the Real Story
University of Basel researchers built a modular nanorobot ~150x smaller than a human hair that self-assembles from a magnetic propulsion…
MIT’s ‘SceneSmith’: AI Agents Build Virtual Worlds So Robots Can Rehearse
MIT CSAIL and the Toyota Research Institute built SceneSmith, which uses three AI agents to assemble realistic 3D rooms —…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 5: Discoverability, Testing, and Going Live
Part 5 of 5, the wrap-up. How a business becomes discoverable to and chosen by AI assistants, how to test…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 4: Settling the Transaction
Part 4 of 5. Payment rails for agent-driven purchases: provider-agnostic adapters that let you swap providers without rewriting checkout, and…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 3: Authoritative Pricing and Scoped Actions
Part 3 of 5. Why the price an agent sees must come from the same engine as human checkout —…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 2: Exposing a Safe, Machine-Readable Catalogue
Part 2 of 5. How to make catalogue and availability readable by AI agents while a core search seam refuses…
Building Agentic Commerce, Part 1: Why the Agent Era Needs a Callable Backend
Part 1 of a 5-part technical series. A growing share of purchases now begins with an AI agent that never…