Field Notes · Dispatches

Dispatches from the Agentic Frontier.

Results over platitudes. Short notes that move work forward — for operators shipping agentic surfaces this quarter.

⬡ Signals ⬡
GEO

SEO → GEO

Design for agent audiences first. Your brand becomes callable by generative engines — not just crawl-able by indexers that no buyer reads anymore.

Per-Use

Per-Use Wins

Why narrow agentic extensions beat monolithic SaaS on CAC, time-to-value, and resilience. Three actions shipped beats thirty features promised.

NLWeb

NLWeb Patterns

JSON-LD that agents actually consume, cite, and execute. Entity-first, action-aware, and structured for the answer box rather than the SERP.

MCP

Signed Manifests

Attestation is the new TLS. A signed MCP manifest is the difference between an agent calling you and an agent ignoring you.

Distribution

Surface Diversity

One extension store is a single point of failure. Three is sovereignty. The brands that survive the next platform pivot ship to every relevant surface.

Policy

Trust as Throughput

Rate limits, scopes, and human-in-the-loop hooks aren't friction — they're the rails that let you grant more autonomy without losing sleep.