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Google's Procedural Graphs Give AI Agents an Editable Answer to What To Do Next
Google's Procedural Graph paper gives AI agents an editable, self-evolving record of what to do next. Its agents ranked first in 21 of 24 benchmark settings, and the graph improved itself without retraining.
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What the Evidence Says AI Changes in the First 100 Days, and Who It Changes It For
The strongest workplace evidence finds AI assistance lifts output most for the least experienced staff and barely at all for experts. In the first 100 days that means measuring one candidate workflow before deploying anything, and writing the result into an automation candidate register.
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The Week-One Cash Reality Check: Can the Business You Just Bought Pay Its Own Way?
Three numbers in week one tell a new owner whether the business can pay its own way: the aged debtor report, actual days to payment against stated terms, and weeks of operating cover.
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The Score Changed Because the Test Changed: What Terminal-Bench 4.0 Actually Did
Benchmark scores that look comparable often are not: Terminal-Bench 4.0 changed the tasks and rules, so every number on the board describes a different measurement. A benchmark figure is only usable with its version, snapshot date and trial count stated in the same sentence.
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You Bought the Decisions, Not Just the Workflow
Where decision rights were never written down, every material call in an acquired business reverts to the new owner. A one-page register, built in the first 30 days, returns that time and leaves evidence a buyer's diligence can trust.
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Proof, Not Presence: How to Evidence That the Business Runs Without You
Buyers test founder dependency by asking your team what happens in your absence, and they accept dated evidence rather than assertions. Here is the documentation and the absence test that make transferability verifiable.
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The Buyer's First Stop Is Your Systems List
Forty-seven percent of buyers now name technology due diligence their top priority. Build a systems inventory and access register before going to market and answer the hardest questions first.
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The Economy Will Not Wait, Says the Pitch. Your Baseline Should
Urgency-framed AI marketing ties spending to macro timing. Baseline one workflow first: the measured evidence, not the economic cycle, is what justifies the spend and what a buyer can use.
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Why the "Add a Tool" Quick Win Fails in the First 100 Days
Adding software to a workflow nobody has documented automates the workaround, not the work. Measure one workflow for thirty days and let the baseline decide whether you need a tool at all.
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