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Weekly AI Roundup: The bottleneck moved from models to org charts

Anthropic and OpenAI announced $11.5B in same-day enterprise joint ventures and admitted on stage that selling models isn't enough — the bottleneck is organizational absorption. The CAS-shaped agents Anthropic shipped the next day aren't pointed at your QBO clients, but the platform vendor that does reach them launched its second major release in eight days. And three large public companies redesigned their org charts around AI-native operating models in the same calendar week.

Peter McCarrollMay 11, 2026

Building AI Workflows

Your first agent's example doesn't exist yet

You have two pieces of a working agent — an instruction from Part 1, a context file from Part 3. The third piece is the example, and the trick is you don't write it. Run the agent without one. Fix the instruction or the context — not the output — until what comes back is what you'd send. That output is your example.

Peter McCarrollMay 9, 2026

Building AI Workflows

How CAS practices should actually use Claude Design

On April 17, Anthropic launched Claude Design — free on every paid Claude plan, turning prompts and source data into branded slides, PDFs, and reports. For CAS practices, three patterns are worth your time this quarter — and one principle decides whether the tool actually pays off.

Peter McCarrollMay 8, 2026

Building AI Workflows

AI saved you 10 minutes. Explaining it cost 20.

Sage and PwC's Beyond the Black Box research put a number on AI's hidden cost: finance professionals spend 12.9 hours a week reconstructing and explaining AI outputs, with 26% of AI time savings lost to verification. The 71% rejection rate the headlines led with is the future cost; the 12.9 hours is what your firm pays now — usually out of partner time. The fix is to stop shipping AI deliverables alone and start shipping them with a research memo and a cross-model verification report.

Peter McCarrollMay 6, 2026

Weekly AI Roundup

Weekly AI Roundup: The platforms are repricing your service line

Intuit attached a public price tag to AI-driven close work at $8 per client per month, Sage rebuilt its portfolio around agents at Sage Future, and the standalone tools you pay for every month shipped AI rebuilds the same week. The bookkeeping service line is being absorbed into the platform subscription in front of you. The 71% trust gap from Sage's IDC research is the only thing slowing it down — and trust is a lagging constraint, not a permanent one.

Peter McCarrollMay 4, 2026

Building AI Workflows

Agent Builder 3: Your AI doesn't know who your client is

For months I've been writing about client context like its meaning is obvious. It isn't. This is the article where we stop talking about context engineering in the abstract and actually build one — a single document that makes every agent you run for a client better, and that lets you take the same agent to every other client just by swapping files.

Peter McCarrollMay 2, 2026