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CCO https://teapaw.org/t.co/UVP8UhxU5c / Principal Blizzard Ventures / big tech alumnus #Microsoft 🇨🇭 #Cisco / #AI #strategy #governance #transformation #sales #ecosystems

Zurich, Switzerland
Joined November 2007
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Your next customer may not have eyes. It may be an agent at 2am. Greg Isenberg calls it the war on agents. It's why I'm writing Kaufmaschinen, a book on how buying moves to AI agents. Your market now has two halves. Win both.
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Fraud detection and credit scoring can run on the same model. Under the EU AI Act one is high-risk, the other isn't. The Act regulates the use, not the technology.
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Next dates: 07.–08.04.2027 Rüschlikon · 12.–13.10.2027 Feusisberg → here.board2bot.com/zfu
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Most unethical AI outcomes aren't decided, they happen through inattention. Soap dispensers, Amazon's CV screening, Air Canada's chatbot. Before go-live: ten minutes on «what could go wrong?»
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Next dates: 07.–08.04.2027 Rüschlikon · 12.–13.10.2027 Feusisberg → here.board2bot.com/zfu
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Want to get serious with AI agents? Block a day for connectors and authorizations: mail, calendar, files, CRM, and every login that has to work. That's where the 50x hides, not in the prompt.
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Next dates: 07.–08.04.2027 Rüschlikon · 12.–13.10.2027 Feusisberg → here.board2bot.com/zfu
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Each of my production agents gets its own OpenRouter key: own model, own daily/weekly/monthly cap, BYOK spend included. So the $200/month Claude API credits from Max 20x go in as a BYOK key. Free credits get spent first. Every agent's cap still holds.
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Why Anthropic does it: they want Max subscribers building production agents on the Console API. Not Claude Code, no rollover. And Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter (not closed yet). Stripe would then see what AI inference costs too.
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Running AI agents is a leadership job. One named owner per agent, a stop switch, a log it can't touch. None of that is code. Shift handovers and aviation checklists solved this long ago.
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Next dates: 07.–08.04.2027 Rüschlikon · 12.–13.10.2027 Feusisberg → here.board2bot.com/zfu
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I asked a room of business leaders: what's the biggest hurdle for AI in your company? Fear among staff. Working with IT. No plan. Data quality. Cost. Not one answer was about the technology.
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Next dates: 07.–08.04.2027 Rüschlikon · 12.–13.10.2027 Feusisberg → here.board2bot.com/zfu
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Daylight Saving Time strikes again — this time the agents. UTC wake + local due. Gate skipped. Next night catch-up. Looked a day late. Make wake and due sing from the same sheet. Check both when the clocks move.
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Agentic commerce is leaving the pilot stage, in Europe too. First agentic order in Europe: Wolf & Badger via Stripe. Cheq saw 100x agent traffic in 45 days. Meanwhile Amazon and eBay block AI agents. The full W43 issue: thomaswinter.ai/agent-shephe…
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"I don't know what they do with it" is wrong for a business AI contract. It's written down. For each kind of data, ask: what would it cost if it reached the wrong people anyway? thomaswinter.ai/sovereignty/
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When OpenAI's test agents broke into Hugging Face, Claude refused much of the forensics. Responders ran an open-weight model on their own hardware. Test your tools on the hard cases. Know your fallback. thomaswinter.ai/sovereignty/
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About 90% of my emails and Slack messages are now written by an agent. The more you trust agents, the clearer you must be about what they did. State of the Flock, October 2026: thomaswinter.ai/agent-shephe…
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Models now ship as quiet API updates, not launch events. The edge goes to whoever owns the evals, the data and the human checkpoint. This Week in AI, W42: thomaswinter.ai/agent-shephe…
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My Agent Team Report on @kylon_ai: Token Whale, 26.3B tokens. What's your report? 👀
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