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AI Labs Just Entered Consulting. Small Agencies Should Be Bullish.
Anthropic's $1.5B Wall Street consulting JV shows model labs using services as distribution. Why that's bullish for SMB-tier shops.
Hermes Profiles: When to Split Your Assistant
Hermes profiles separate memory, sessions, skills, identity, cron state, and gateway routes so recurring AI roles can stay narrow, auditable, and useful.
ChatGPT and Perplexity Reached webvise.io's Top Referrers. Here Is the Format That Performed.
Two AI search engines entered this site's top-7 referrers for the first time. The post that earned the citations is a decision tree, not an ultimate guide.
Your AGENTS.md Is Your Moat Now: What Goes Inside Production Files
Next.js 16.2 made AGENTS.md default scaffolding on Tuesday. Augment's empirical study and my production template show what useful agent instructions actually contain.
How One Blog Post Earned 40K Google Impressions In 11 Days
AI Overviews summarize generic content away. One blog post on webvise.io earned 40,000 Google impressions in 11 days because Google had no summary to display. Here is what changed in the editorial bar behind pages like it.
Why AI Teams Ship Faster and Launch Worse: The Intent Debt Problem
AI made writing code nearly free. Deciding what to write got harder. The gap is intent debt, and it compounds faster than any legacy codebase ever did.
OpenAI Privacy Filter: The Open-Weight PII Model That Runs in Your Browser (And Where It Belongs in an Agent Stack)
OpenAI's new open-weight PII classifier runs in your browser and fills a governance layer that many agent stacks underweight. Here's how the model works, where it fits, and what it breaks.
When Clients Ask For RAG in 2026: My Decision Tree (And Why I Rarely Start There)
I still build RAG pipelines when clients insist, but I rarely recommend them first in 2026. Most of the 2024 LLM tooling stack got obsoleted between January and April. Here is the decision tree I walk every prospect through, and what I ship when the tree points away from RAG.
Copilot vs. Autopilot: Why Many AI Agencies Struggle to Compound Their Margins
Sequoia says services are the new software. ColdIQ hit $7M ARR selling the work, not the tool. Here's why AI agencies selling tools face margin compression, and what replaces them.