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ISSUE 08 / 2026AI STRATEGY · 07.26
Most ecommerce trends run their course inside a week. This is the daily operating view for catching them while there is still time to act.
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Strategy, systems and provocations for teams making AI commercially useful.
Salesforce forecasts that one in five holiday visits this year will start with an AI agent. Most stores haven’t checked whether those agents can read their products. Every…
if your AI output is sharp one day and off-brand the next, the tool probably isn’t the problem. You’re starting every session from scratch. Someone asks me a…
Most AI prompts read like a to-do list. I handed one a business goal instead, with clear limits and a finish line, and got back a full Black…
Most retailers don’t fail at AI because they picked the wrong tool. They fail because nobody decided what kind of tool they actually needed before they started buying.…
You don’t need a stack of AI subscriptions. You need to know which five actually earn their place, and what job each one is there to do. Every…
A new flagship model dropped this week. By the second day of the billing cycle, one retailer had already burned through their entire monthly AI spend. The two…
You read AI drafts every day and wave most of them through. That’s exactly how a phrase you’d never say out loud ends up in your own voice…
Automating support with AI can push satisfaction up or quietly drive customers away. The whole difference comes down to knowing which tickets a machine should never touch.…
Most ecommerce trends run their course inside a week. If you wait for the weekly report to spot them, you are always reacting to a moment that has…
Most advice on building an AI agent is written for developers with an API key and endless patience. This is written for people who run a store and…
Every week brings a new word for something your AI can supposedly do. Most of it is noise. Three features are the exception, and setting them up once…
Half your team’s on ChatGPT. Half’s on Claude. Nobody’s sharing prompts, and your brand voice reads differently depending on who wrote the draft that day. That’s not an…
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