Industry Insights

Field reports from the agent economy.

What the data from 16,000+ scored companies tells us about how AI agents evaluate, choose, and transact with businesses. Original research, market analysis, and verdict-first writing on the autonomous agent shift.

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Analysis Jun 4, 2026

MCP Protocol and the New Commercial Readiness Standard

Anthropic published a specification. Salesforce shipped a server. MCP has become the baseline protocol for agentic commerce, and fewer than three percent of businesses are compliant.

Strategy May 28, 2026

What AI Agents Actually Read on Your Website (And What They Skip)

Your hero section does not exist to an AI agent. Your schema markup does. What the shift from human readers to autonomous evaluators means for marketing teams.

Analysis May 21, 2026

The Agentic Infrastructure Transition: Where the Durable Value Is

Application layers crowd quickly. Infrastructure compounds. The three underbuilt layers of the agent economy, and why the businesses building them now own the category.

Analysis Apr 6, 2026

Structured Data and the Agent Economy

Structure is now a prerequisite. A beautifully written page with no schema markup is less useful to an agent than a plainly written page with explicit labeling.

Data Report Mar 30, 2026

We Scored Over 100 March Madness Sites for AI Agent Readability

KenPom scores 44 and blocked our crawler. DraftKings scores 40. A dissolved conference beats both.

Analysis Mar 23, 2026

Why Your Website Is Invisible to AI Agents

An AI agent visiting your business sees something almost entirely different from what a human sees, and most businesses fail agent parsing on three structural dimensions.

Analysis Mar 9, 2026

The Agent Trust Problem: How AI Buyers Evaluate Vendors in 2026

A purchasing decision is being made about your business right now by a system that will never call you.

Analysis Feb 23, 2026

The RAG Economy: How AI Systems Choose What to Cite

Retrieval-Augmented Generation determines which sources AI systems pull from. Most businesses do not understand what the retrieval process actually favors, and pay for it.

Analysis Feb 9, 2026

Tools Are the New Backlinks: Trust Infrastructure in the Agent Economy

When an AI agent calls your API to complete a task, that is a trust endorsement with compounding properties identical to backlinks in traditional SEO.

ARS Report Jan 26, 2026

Top 10 B2B SaaS Platforms, January 2026

Notion leads at 61. Intercom trails at 28. The same pattern across all ten: strong human SEO, near-zero machine readability. Median ARS: 38/100.

Analysis Jan 12, 2026

The End of Human SEO: How the Agent Economy Is Rewriting Digital Visibility

For 25 years SEO optimized for human readers. That era is ending.

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