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      <title><![CDATA[Your Tools Are Blowing the Context Window: Budgeting Tool Output Before It Reaches the Model]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/your-tools-are-blowing-the-context-window-budgeting-tool/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Raw API responses eat agent context faster than reasoning does. How to set per-tool output budgets with pagination, summarization, and reference handles. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/your-tools-are-blowing-the-context-window-budgeting-tool/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[If the Model Hub Changes Hands: Mapping Your Hugging Face Dependency Before an Acquisition Does It for You]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/if-the-model-hub-changes-hands-mapping-your-hugging-face/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reported acquisition interest in Hugging Face makes model registry dependency risk concrete. How to map, pin, and mirror your AI supply chain now. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/if-the-model-hub-changes-hands-mapping-your-hugging-face/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where Agent Code Actually Runs: Choosing a Sandbox for AI Agent Code Execution]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/where-agent-code-actually-runs-choosing-a-sandbox-for-ai/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Container, gVisor, or Firecracker microVM? How to pick agent code execution sandbox isolation by blast radius - filesystem, egress, and credential reach. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/where-agent-code-actually-runs-choosing-a-sandbox-for-ai/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent Instruction Files Are Source Code: Versioning AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md Like Config]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-instruction-files-are-source-code-versioning-agentsmd/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are production config with no failing tests. How to add ownership, review, drift checks, and regression tasks before they rot. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-instruction-files-are-source-code-versioning-agentsmd/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thinking Budgets Are a Product Decision: Tuning Reasoning Effort per Task, Not per Model]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/thinking-budgets-are-a-product-decision-tuning-reasoning/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Reasoning effort settings decide cost, latency, and accuracy per request. How to tune thinking budgets by workflow step instead of one global default. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/thinking-budgets-are-a-product-decision-tuning-reasoning/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Durable Agents: Checkpointing, Resumption, and Why Long Tasks Need a Workflow Engine]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/durable-agents-checkpointing-resumption-and-why-long-tasks/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Durable execution for AI agents explained: what to checkpoint, why idempotency comes first, and how Temporal, Restate, and Inngest fit under agent loops. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/durable-agents-checkpointing-resumption-and-why-long-tasks/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent Simulation Testing: Put a Simulated User in Front of Your Agent Before Real Traffic Does]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-simulation-testing-put-a-simulated-user-in-front-of/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Multi-turn agents fail on trajectory, not single responses. How to build a user simulator, seed it from real transcripts, and version it like a test fixture. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-simulation-testing-put-a-simulated-user-in-front-of/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent Memory Benchmarks: What They Actually Measure and Where They Mislead]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-memory-benchmarks-what-they-actually-measure-and/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Agent memory benchmarks score single-session recall, not staleness, conflicts, or cross-user leaks. How to read the numbers and build your own eval. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-memory-benchmarks-what-they-actually-measure-and/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Output Contracts: Schema Validation Is the Cheapest Agent Reliability Layer]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/output-contracts-schema-validation-is-the-cheapest-agent/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Most agent failures are malformed handoffs, not bad reasoning. Output contracts with schema validation turn silent data corruption into loggable rejections. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/output-contracts-schema-validation-is-the-cheapest-agent/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent Skills Over Prompts: Package Procedures So Agents Load Only What the Task Needs]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-skills-over-prompts-package-procedures-so-agents-load/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why giant system prompts fail, how agent skills packaging and progressive disclosure fix instruction loading, and how to migrate before adding agents. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-skills-over-prompts-package-procedures-so-agents-load/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Coding Agent Is an Unmanaged Endpoint: Runtime Security Controls for Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/your-coding-agent-is-an-unmanaged-endpoint-runtime-security/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Coding agents run shell commands with your credentials outside EDR scope. Here are the runtime controls that close the gap: isolation, egress, secrets, logs. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/your-coding-agent-is-an-unmanaged-endpoint-runtime-security/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 6: Agentic RAG]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agentic-rag-from-scratch-tools-memory/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how RAG retrieves source material, checks access, combines search methods, cites evidence, and refuses unsupported answers. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agentic-rag-from-scratch-tools-memory/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 7: Evals and Observability]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-evaluation-observability/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to evaluate AI agents through golden cases, complete traces, deterministic graders, repeated trials, and production feedback. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-evaluation-observability/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 1: Architecture]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-from-scratch-deterministic-boundary/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn the basic architecture of an AI agent, where model judgment belongs, and which decisions should stay deterministic. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-from-scratch-deterministic-boundary/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 2: Harness and CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-harness-cli-from-scratch/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn why an AI agent needs a harness and how the harness controls state, tools, limits, retries, traces, and command-line access. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-harness-cli-from-scratch/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 3: Tools and APIs]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-tools-function-calling-apis/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how AI agent tools connect to APIs safely through narrow schemas, trusted identity, read-write separation, approvals, and useful errors. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-tools-function-calling-apis/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 5: Context and Memory]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/context-engineering-memory-ai-agents/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to build an AI agent context pipeline that separates instructions, working state, evidence, tool results, and durable memory. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/context-engineering-memory-ai-agents/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 4: MCP]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/mcp-server-tutorial-function-calling-rest/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Understand the Model Context Protocol, its hosts, clients, servers, types, transports, security boundary, and relationship to APIs and function calling. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/mcp-server-tutorial-function-calling-rest/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agents Part 8: Security and Deployment]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/production-ai-agent-security-deployment/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to control an AI agent&#39;s access, approve risky actions, prevent duplicate writes, deploy safely, and recover from failures. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/production-ai-agent-security-deployment/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rent or Own: GPU-as-a-Service Pricing and Contract Economics in 2026]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/rent-or-own-gpu-as-a-service-pricing-and-contract-economics/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[How to model rent vs buy GPU cluster decisions in 2026: break-even utilization math, neocloud contract terms, and the counterparty risk nobody prices in. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/rent-or-own-gpu-as-a-service-pricing-and-contract-economics/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Model Deprecation Migration: Build the Runbook Before the Retirement Email Arrives]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/model-deprecation-migration-build-the-runbook-before-the/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Model versions are dependencies with expiry dates. A practical runbook for LLM version pinning, upgrade regression testing, canary routing, and rollback. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/model-deprecation-migration-build-the-runbook-before-the/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Choosing an Inference Server: vLLM vs SGLang vs TensorRT-LLM Under Agentic Load]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/choosing-an-inference-server-vllm-vs-sglang-vs-tensorrt-llm/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/choosing-an-inference-server-vllm-vs-sglang-vs-tensorrt-llm/</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[vLLM vs SGLang vs TensorRT-LLM for agent workloads. Why prefix cache hit rate and scheduler behavior beat raw tokens per second, and how to benchmark it. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/choosing-an-inference-server-vllm-vs-sglang-vs-tensorrt-llm/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open-Weight Model License Terms Are a Procurement Problem, Not a Footnote]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/open-weight-model-license-terms-are-a-procurement-problem/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Open weight model license terms decide what you can fine-tune, resell, and embed. A procurement gate for LLM license compliance and indemnification gaps. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/open-weight-model-license-terms-are-a-procurement-problem/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Subagent Design Boundaries: Context Isolation, Not an Org Chart]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/subagent-design-boundaries-context-isolation-not-an-org/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/subagent-design-boundaries-context-isolation-not-an-org/</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Spawn a subagent for context budget, permission scoping, or failure containment. If none of those apply, inline the step and keep the tokens. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/subagent-design-boundaries-context-isolation-not-an-org/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI for Science Data Infrastructure: What the NSF&#39;s $83M Award Signals]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-for-science-data-infrastructure-what-the-nsfs-83m-award/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[NSF put $83M into scientific data pipelines, not model training. Here is why instrument-to-dataset plumbing is the real rate limiter for AI in R&amp;D. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-for-science-data-infrastructure-what-the-nsfs-83m-award/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building the AI Investment Business Case for the Board: Capex, Opex, and Depreciating Models]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/building-the-ai-investment-business-case-for-the-board/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[How to capitalize AI development costs, set honest useful lives for models, and build a multi-year AI budget model your CFO can defend. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/building-the-ai-investment-business-case-for-the-board/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Context Compaction for Agents: Keeping Long-Horizon Sessions Coherent Past the Window]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/context-compaction-for-agents-keeping-long-horizon-sessions/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Autonomous attack agents now run full intrusion chains. The defensive gap is not tooling, it is telemetry: identity-scoped tool logs, egress inventory, and dependency provenance. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/autonomous-attack-agents-are-real-what-the-anthropic/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agents get copied service-account tokens because it works on day one. Here is the credential brokering pattern that replaces them: ephemeral, scoped, revocable. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-identity-management-why-ai-agents-should-never-hold/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/eu-ai-act-enforcement-is-live-what-august-2026-changes-for/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[GPAI obligations are now finable and Article 50 transparency duties apply. Here is how to map each AI Act requirement to an artifact your team actually builds. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/eu-ai-act-enforcement-is-live-what-august-2026-changes-for/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reviewing AI Generated Code at Scale: Redesigning the Merge Path]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/reviewing-ai-generated-code-at-scale-redesigning-the-merge/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agents write code faster than humans can read it. A practical framework for evidence-based review, PR tiering, and fixing the code review bottleneck. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/reviewing-ai-generated-code-at-scale-redesigning-the-merge/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Prefill and decode stress different hardware. Here is how disaggregated serving, scheduling, and speculative decoding actually change your cost per token. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/prefill-decode-speculate-the-three-levers-of-disaggregated/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/enterprise-ai-roi-six-domains/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to six enterprise AI domains with measurable ROI, from customer service and software to security and core operations. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/enterprise-ai-roi-six-domains/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/measuring-ai-coding-assistant-productivity-throughput/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Acceptance rate and lines generated are vanity metrics. Here is how to instrument revert rate, change failure rate, and rework ratio for coding agents. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/measuring-ai-coding-assistant-productivity-throughput/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Power, not GPUs, now sets AI capacity. How to plan in megawatt-years, read interconnection queues, and pick sites by energization date instead of price. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-data-center-power-constraints-capacity-planning-when-the/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Leaderboard Gaps Smaller Than Error Bars: How to Compare Reasoning Models Honestly]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most reasoning leaderboard gaps sit inside the error bars. How to read benchmark statistical significance and compare models honestly before you buy. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/leaderboard-gaps-smaller-than-error-bars-how-to-compare/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent Run Variance: Why pass@k Hides the Failures That Matter]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[pass@k measures your agent&#39;s luckiest run. pass^k measures the one you ship. How to report agent run variance and set SLOs that survive production. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-run-variance-why-passk-hides-the-failures-that-matter/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A teardown of AI voice agent cost per minute in 2026: STT, LLM, TTS, telephony, and platform margin, plus the volume where owning the stack wins. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-voice-agent-cost-per-minute-what-005-to-100-actually/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Freshdesk AI Pricing in 2026: The Real Cost of Copilot, Sessions, and Per-Agent Seats]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/freshdesk-ai-pricing-in-2026-the-real-cost-of-copilot/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A line-by-line teardown of Freshdesk AI pricing in 2026, with a worked 10-agent budget, the session expiry trap, and the volume where custom pencils out. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/freshdesk-ai-pricing-in-2026-the-real-cost-of-copilot/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/custom-ai-agent-development-cost-what-a-production/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A line-by-line breakdown of custom AI agent development cost in 2026, with scoped ranges by workflow complexity, run-rate math, and the buy-vs-build crossover. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/custom-ai-agent-development-cost-what-a-production/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Best Sierra AI Alternatives for Mid-Market Companies: Cost, Control, and Time to Value]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Compare Sierra AI alternatives for mid-market teams: Decagon, Fin, Zendesk AI, Ada, and owned custom builds on pricing, implementation speed, control, and exit terms. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/best-sierra-ai-alternatives-for-mid-market-companies-cost/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/intercom-fin-vs-custom-ai-agent-cost-control-voice-and/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A buyer&#39;s comparison of Intercom Fin and a custom AI support agent across pricing unit, channels, voice, actions, data control, and exit cost. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/intercom-fin-vs-custom-ai-agent-cost-control-voice-and/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Bandwidth Wall: A Practical Guide to Co-Packaged Optics]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-bandwidth-wall-co-packaged-optics-buying-guide/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How co-packaged optics changes AI network power, density, repair, and procurement, with a framework for deciding when pluggables stop working. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-bandwidth-wall-co-packaged-optics-buying-guide/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI can rank millions of material candidates, but synthesis, measurement, uncertainty, and scale-up determine whether a predicted crystal becomes a product. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-materials-discovery-closed-loop-lab/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[DeepSeek&#39;s Lessons: How Efficient AI Teams Turn Constraints Into Systems]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A technical and organizational reading of DeepSeek, with a framework for separating training-cost headlines from repeatable AI efficiency. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/deepseek-lessons-efficient-ai-teams/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Should Intel Second-Source Nvidia? A Practical Test of the Proposal]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Intel needs foundry volume and the U.S. wants AI chip resilience. A CUDA license sounds direct, but current economics point to a narrower second-source plan. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/intel-nvidia-second-source-industrial-policy/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/japan-ai-strategy-exportable-products/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Japan&#39;s AI strategy needs more than sovereign models and custom projects. A practical plan for product revenue, industrial data, compute, and talent. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/japan-ai-strategy-exportable-products/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lisp Machine Boom and Bust: Five Lessons for AI Platform Buyers]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/lisp-machine-ai-platform-boom-bust-lessons/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[What the Lisp machine collapse teaches AI teams about specialized hardware, closed ecosystems, expert systems, switching costs, and exit plans. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/lisp-machine-ai-platform-boom-bust-lessons/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why AI data centers need high-power lasers, where Lumentum fits, and how operators should judge co-packaged optics without buying the hype. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/lumentum-ai-data-center-lasers-cpo-economics/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/nvidia-way-operating-system-for-ai-teams/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical test of Nvidia&#39;s management system, from Top Five emails and rapid decisions to CUDA patience, burnout risk, and founder dependence. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/nvidia-way-operating-system-for-ai-teams/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/superconducting-ai-data-center-reality-check/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A systems-level test of superconducting AI compute, from Josephson junction energy and 100 GHz logic to cryogenic memory, I/O, and cooling. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/superconducting-ai-data-center-reality-check/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/tsmc-ai-chip-shortage-capacity-planning/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Is TSMC slowing the AI boom? Use a constraint map for wafers, packaging, memory, racks, and power before blaming one supplier or buying capacity. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/tsmc-ai-chip-shortage-capacity-planning/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A 100-day AI value creation plan for PE portfolio companies: workflow baselines, one governed pilot, and a repeatable rollout across the portfolio. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agents-for-private-equity-portfolio-companies-a-100-day/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent guardrails fail when every rule lives in a prompt. Use this framework to move permissions, limits, approvals, and tests into code. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-guardrails-policy-enforcement/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-testing-sandbox-production/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent testing must verify business state, not just model replies. Build a deterministic sandbox, side-effect capture, and release gates. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-testing-sandbox-production/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-tool-selection-mcp/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent tool selection gets harder as catalogs grow. Learn how to score, route, budget, test, and retire MCP tools and specialist agents. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-tool-selection-mcp/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why AI Data Agents Still Fail in BigQuery, dbt, and Airbyte]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-data-agents-bigquery-dbt-airbyte/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI data agents can write SQL yet fail full workflows. Use this architecture for governed BigQuery, dbt, and Airbyte automation. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-data-agents-bigquery-dbt-airbyte/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-automation-process-discovery/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI workflow automation fails when tribal knowledge is mistaken for a process. Use this discovery playbook to document, test, and automate the right steps. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-automation-process-discovery/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/prompt-injection-ai-agents-enterprise-security/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Prompt injection turns emails and documents into hostile instructions. Use this enterprise playbook to contain the damage before agents can act. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/prompt-injection-ai-agents-enterprise-security/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/rag-evaluation-retrieval-generation-metrics/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[RAG evaluation fails when one score hides retrieval and generation errors. Use claim-level metrics to find the broken layer and fix it. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/rag-evaluation-retrieval-generation-metrics/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/rag-poisoning-knowledge-base-security/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/rag-poisoning-knowledge-base-security/</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[RAG poisoning can turn one trusted document into repeated wrong answers. Learn how to secure ingestion, retrieval, memory, and agent actions. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/rag-poisoning-knowledge-base-security/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Reduce AI Agent Cost With Plan Caching]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/reduce-ai-agent-cost-plan-caching/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plan caching reuses a proven way of working instead of a stale answer. Learn where it cuts AI agent cost, where it fails, and how to deploy it safely. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/reduce-ai-agent-cost-plan-caching/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[SFT vs. RL: Which Fine-Tuning Method Should Enterprises Use?]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/sft-vs-rl-which-fine-tuning-method-should-enterprises-use/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[SFT learns from example answers. RL learns from scored attempts. Use this framework to choose the right fine-tuning method for an enterprise AI workflow. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/sft-vs-rl-which-fine-tuning-method-should-enterprises-use/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Can AI Agents Actually Automate in the Enterprise?]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/what-ai-agents-can-automate-enterprise/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agents automate tasks, not whole jobs. Use this enterprise scoring matrix to choose work that is bounded, valuable, reversible, and testable. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/what-ai-agents-can-automate-enterprise/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agent CRM Integration: A Production Guide for Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, and NetSuite]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-crm-integration-a-production-guide-for-zendesk/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to wire AI agents into Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, and NetSuite with guarded writeback: auth, rate limits, idempotency, approvals, and rollback. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-crm-integration-a-production-guide-for-zendesk/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[When Should AI Support Escalate to a Human? A Decision Framework for Deflection vs Escalation]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/when-should-ai-support-escalate-to-a-human-a-decision/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical decision framework for when AI support should escalate to a human: confidence thresholds, sentiment triggers, stakes, and clean handoffs. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/when-should-ai-support-escalate-to-a-human-a-decision/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cross-Channel Customer Support Memory: Why Your AI Forgets Customers Between Chat, Email, and Voice]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/cross-channel-customer-support-memory-why-your-ai-forgets/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/cross-channel-customer-support-memory-why-your-ai-forgets/</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Why support AI loses customer context between chat, email, and voice, and the unified memory architecture that fixes resolution time and CSAT. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/cross-channel-customer-support-memory-why-your-ai-forgets/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Operating Model for Enterprise AI: From One Workflow to a Repeatable System]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/enterprise-ai-transformation-playbook-director-ai/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical 2026 operating model for enterprise AI: inference, embedded subject-matter expertise, evals, coding agents, and ROI governance. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/enterprise-ai-transformation-playbook-director-ai/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Automate Tier 1 Support: A Practical Playbook Beyond FAQ Bots]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-1-support-a-practical-playbook-beyond/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-1-support-a-practical-playbook-beyond/</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A step-by-step playbook for tier 1 support automation: which tickets to start with, knowledge sourcing, confidence thresholds, and escalation design. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-1-support-a-practical-playbook-beyond/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[When to Scope the Next AI Workflow: Stability Gates Before Expansion]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/when-to-scope-the-next-ai-workflow-stability-gates-before/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/when-to-scope-the-next-ai-workflow-stability-gates-before/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Seven stability gates that tell you when an AI workflow is truly done - and how to scope the next one using a value, risk, and readiness backlog. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/when-to-scope-the-next-ai-workflow-stability-gates-before/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Weekly Edge-Case Review: How Good AI Workflows Improve Without Drifting]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/the-weekly-edge-case-review-how-good-ai-workflows-improve/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/the-weekly-edge-case-review-how-good-ai-workflows-improve/</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A 45-minute weekly AI workflow review that turns edge cases into eval coverage, prevents agent drift, and tells you when approval gates can loosen. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/the-weekly-edge-case-review-how-good-ai-workflows-improve/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Train the Operators and Reviewers: The Human Rollout Plan for AI Workflows]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/train-the-operators-and-reviewers-the-human-rollout-plan/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/train-the-operators-and-reviewers-the-human-rollout-plan/</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI workflow operator training decides whether your automation sticks. A practical plan for reviewer SLAs, approval rubrics, calibration, and escalation. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/train-the-operators-and-reviewers-the-human-rollout-plan/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Agent Writeback Patterns: Updating CRM, Helpdesk, ERP, Docs, Email, and Slack Safely]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-writeback-patterns-updating-crm-helpdesk-erp-docs/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-writeback-patterns-updating-crm-helpdesk-erp-docs/</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to AI agent writeback: draft-only, approval gates, reversible writes, idempotency keys, and rollback across CRM, ERP, and helpdesk systems. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-writeback-patterns-updating-crm-helpdesk-erp-docs/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Retrieval Paths and Source Priority: How AI Agents Decide Which Context to Trust]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/retrieval-paths-and-source-priority-how-ai-agents-decide/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/retrieval-paths-and-source-priority-how-ai-agents-decide/</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent retrieval paths determine which sources win when context conflicts. A framework for source priority, permission-aware retrieval, and escalation. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/retrieval-paths-and-source-priority-how-ai-agents-decide/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/duplicate-data-breaks-ai-agents-how-to-clean-fields-records/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/duplicate-data-breaks-ai-agents-how-to-clean-fields-records/</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Duplicate records and conflicting documents make AI agents fail fast. A practical guide to dedupe, canonical fields, and source precedence - scoped to one workflow. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/duplicate-data-breaks-ai-agents-how-to-clean-fields-records/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/building-a-baa-ready-ai-agent-stack-architecture-vendors/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A reference architecture for a BAA-ready AI agent stack: which LLM, vector, and orchestration vendors sign BAAs, and where PHI is allowed to cross. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/building-a-baa-ready-ai-agent-stack-architecture-vendors/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/model-router-grok-gpt-muse-glm-api-price-war/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6, Muse Spark 1.1, and GLM-5.2 show why enterprise AI strategy is shifting from model selection to routing, evals, and cost control. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/model-router-grok-gpt-muse-glm-api-price-war/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agentic AI Is Making Memory a Serving Bottleneck]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agentic-ai-memory-bottleneck/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/agentic-ai-memory-bottleneck/</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agents need more than compute. They keep more state alive, run longer tasks, and push HBM demand through usage, context, and model scale at the same time. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agentic-ai-memory-bottleneck/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/migrating-from-zendesk-ai-to-a-custom-agent-cost-risk-and-a/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/migrating-from-zendesk-ai-to-a-custom-agent-cost-risk-and-a/</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A 36-month cost model, a real risk register, and a phased 90-day plan for teams migrating from Zendesk AI to a custom support agent - plus who should stay. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/migrating-from-zendesk-ai-to-a-custom-agent-cost-risk-and-a/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-failed-in-prod/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Production AI agents fail differently from normal software. The fix is audit logs, replayable traces, regression tests, and recovery paths before the next customer sees the same failure. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-failed-in-prod/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/domain-specific-agents/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Generic AI assistants can answer questions. Domain-specific workflow agents can run support, finance, sales, and operations work with scoped tools, policies, traces, and evals. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/domain-specific-agents/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/financial-compliance-documents/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Financial compliance risk rarely lives in one PDF. Here is how AI agents can correlate invoices, contracts, payroll, tax, and ledger evidence while keeping humans in the approval path. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/financial-compliance-documents/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/production-ai-playbook/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A field guide for turning agent demos into production systems with evals, traces, permissions, incident response, and staged rollout discipline. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/production-ai-playbook/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/production-evals-agentic-systems/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agent evals turn a promising demo into a measurable production workflow by testing tool use, policy, recovery, latency, and business outcomes. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/production-evals-agentic-systems/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/spec-driven-production-workflows/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most AI pilots do not fail because the model is weak. They fail because nobody specified the workflow, proof source, exceptions, and release bar before building the agent. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/spec-driven-production-workflows/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agent-tokenomics-open-models-harbor-opennash/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agent tokenomics is the operating discipline for AI cost, quality, and model routing. Harbor shows how open models can be tested fairly against frontier APIs. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agent-tokenomics-open-models-harbor-opennash/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/harbor-framework-agent-evals-business-infrastructure/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Harbor solves the messy problem behind production AI agents: proving they can complete real work in repeatable container tasks. Here is where OpenNash fits. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/harbor-framework-agent-evals-business-infrastructure/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/what-is-agentic-knowledge-a-practical-definition-for-ai/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentic knowledge is company knowledge AI agents can retrieve, evaluate, update, and act on. Get a practical definition, maturity model, and starting path. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/what-is-agentic-knowledge-a-practical-definition-for-ai/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Best Libraries for Caching in an Agent Knowledge Base: Redis, GPTCache, and LangChain Compared]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/best-libraries-for-caching-in-an-agent-knowledge-base-redis/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A hands-on guide to caching libraries for AI agent knowledge bases: Redis, GPTCache, LangChain, and MongoDB, the four cache layers, and the failure modes. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/best-libraries-for-caching-in-an-agent-knowledge-base-redis/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Knowledge Retrieval Platform Buyer Framework: Consolidating Wikis Without Migrating the Mess]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-knowledge-retrieval-platform-buyer-framework/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to evaluate an AI knowledge retrieval platform for wiki consolidation: permission-aware search, canonical sources, analytics, and consolidate vs federate. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-knowledge-retrieval-platform-buyer-framework/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Self-Hosted AI Customer Support: When On-Prem Beats Cloud (and Data Stays Yours)]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/self-hosted-ai-customer-support-when-on-prem-beats-cloud/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When self-hosted AI customer support beats cloud: the data boundary, real cost math, and what supported on-prem looks like without a DIY maintenance bill. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/self-hosted-ai-customer-support-when-on-prem-beats-cloud/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/per-resolution-vs-flat-fee-chatbot-pricing-which-model-wins/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Per-resolution AI support pricing taxes your own deflection. Model the cost curve at 10k, 100k, and 1M conversations before you sign a contract. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/per-resolution-vs-flat-fee-chatbot-pricing-which-model-wins/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Automate Tier 2 Support Tickets Without Breaking Escalation]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-2-support-tickets-without-breaking/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-2-support-tickets-without-breaking/</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to tier 2 support automation: which actions to automate, permission gates, write-backs, and clean escalation handoffs that keep context. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/how-to-automate-tier-2-support-tickets-without-breaking/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/tier-1-vs-tier-2-customer-support-definitions-examples-and/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Clear definitions of tier 1 vs tier 2 customer support, real examples of each, and a deflect-assist-escalate framework for where AI actually pays off. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/tier-1-vs-tier-2-customer-support-definitions-examples-and/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Patching AI Agent Failure Modes: Prompt, Tool, Retrieval, Routing, or Workflow?]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/patching-ai-agent-failure-modes-prompt-tool-retrieval/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Not every AI agent failure is a prompt problem. A root-cause guide to diagnosing prompt, tool, retrieval, routing, and workflow faults before you patch. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/patching-ai-agent-failure-modes-prompt-tool-retrieval/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Four Ways to Scale AI Compute: Pretraining, Post-Training, Test-Time, and Sleep-Time]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/four-ways-to-scale-ai-compute/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/four-ways-to-scale-ai-compute/</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI scaling is no longer just bigger pretraining runs. Enterprises need to understand pretraining, post-training, test-time compute, and sleep-time compute so they can route the right work to the right model at the right cost. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/four-ways-to-scale-ai-compute/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Managed AI Workflow Operations: What Actually Happens After the Agent Goes Live]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/managed-ai-workflow-operations-what-actually-happens-after/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Launch is day zero, not the finish line. How managed AI workflow operations keep agents working: quality monitoring, weekly edge-case review, and evals. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/managed-ai-workflow-operations-what-actually-happens-after/]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Economy Is Real. Now It Has to Become Workflow ROI]]></title>
      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-economy-revenue-workflow-roi/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Exponential View&#39;s demand-side AI economy estimate shows real revenue growth. The next test for operators is whether AI spend turns into measurable workflow ROI. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-economy-revenue-workflow-roi/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/audit-logs-and-dashboards-for-ai-workflows-what-operators/</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://opennash.com/blog/audit-logs-and-dashboards-for-ai-workflows-what-operators/</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI workflow audit logs and dashboards are what operators need after launch. What to track, who reads it, and the review cadence that holds teams accountable. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/audit-logs-and-dashboards-for-ai-workflows-what-operators/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-customer-support-tier-1-tier-2-tier-3-automation/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI customer support is moving from Q&amp;A bots to Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 automation with action, memory, handoff, and predictable pricing. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-customer-support-tier-1-tier-2-tier-3-automation/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/launch-ai-workflows-inside-existing-systems-not-a-separate/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[How to launch AI workflows inside the CRM, ERP, Slack, email, and databases your team already uses, with safe read vs write integration and approval gates. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/launch-ai-workflows-inside-existing-systems-not-a-separate/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/every-production-failure-should-become-an-eval-case-the-ai/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Turn every AI agent failure in production into a permanent eval case. A failure taxonomy and weekly review loop that makes agents improve instead of thrash. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/every-production-failure-should-become-an-eval-case-the-ai/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/loops-and-evals-how-you-know-ai-agents-work/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Production AI in 2026 runs on four loops: agent, verification, event, and improvement, held together by workflow-specific evals, traces, and human review. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/loops-and-evals-how-you-know-ai-agents-work/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/measure-the-outcome-not-the-prompt-business-metrics-for/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Stop grading prompts and eval scores. Measure AI agent business outcomes - cycle time, exception rate, cost per case - that a CFO will actually sign off on. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/measure-the-outcome-not-the-prompt-business-metrics-for/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-passfail-criteria-the-production-readiness/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[A buyer-friendly pass/fail checklist for AI workflow production readiness: eval coverage, edge-case rates, approval rules, rollback, audit trails, and training. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-passfail-criteria-the-production-readiness/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent traces need more than final answers. Capture tool calls, retrieval, decision paths, cost, and reviewer choices so workflow failures become fixable. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-traces-and-tool-calls-what-to-capture-so-workflow/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/reliable-agentic-rag-architecture-prince-opennash/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bayer&#39;s PRINCE case study shows the production work behind agentic RAG: scoped tools, traceable orchestration, code-aware evals, and review loops. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/reliable-agentic-rag-architecture-prince-opennash/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[GLM-5.2, Opus 4.5, and runaway Claude Code spend show why AI teams should manage AI as scarce compute: cost per accepted task, routing, budgets, and model substitution. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/tokenomics-glm-52-ai-agent-economics/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/workflow-specific-evals-why-generic-ai-benchmarks-dont/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Generic AI benchmarks like MMLU and SWE-bench won&#39;t tell you if your agent handles your invoices or tickets. Build workflow-specific evals instead. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/workflow-specific-evals-why-generic-ai-benchmarks-dont/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/least-privilege-tools-for-ai-agents-restrict-permissions/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Good instinct to stop on that one. Honest answer first, then the method. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/least-privilege-tools-for-ai-agents-restrict-permissions/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-compute-buildout-players-dependencies/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical map of the AI infrastructure buildout: who the players are, what depends on what, where the bottlenecks sit, and how to think about the economics. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-compute-buildout-players-dependencies/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-approval-gates-and-exception-routing-stopping/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[AI workflow approval gates and exception routing stop silent AI failures. When to approve, sample, escalate, or halt - with five worked examples. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-workflow-approval-gates-and-exception-routing-stopping/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/keep-deterministic-steps-deterministic-when-to-use-rules/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to deciding when an AI workflow step should be rules, code, or an LLM, and how to keep deterministic logic out of probabilistic models. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/keep-deterministic-steps-deterministic-when-to-use-rules/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-allowed-actions-the-governance-document-to-write/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before you launch an AI agent, define what it may read, draft, send, approve, and never do. A practical allowed-action matrix for governed agent design. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-allowed-actions-the-governance-document-to-write/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/permission-aware-ai-agents-controlling-who-sees-what-data/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Permission-aware AI agents enforce who sees what data. A practical guide to user-scoped retrieval, RBAC, least privilege, field masking, and audit logs. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/permission-aware-ai-agents-controlling-who-sees-what-data/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/data-and-context-engineering-for-ai-agents-the-work-before/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agents fail on context, not models. The data and context engineering behind reliable agents: sources, freshness, permissions, retrieval, and writeback. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/data-and-context-engineering-for-ai-agents-the-work-before/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-workflow-readiness-scorecard-where-ai-can-help-safely/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Use an eight-axis scorecard to pick your first AI workflow. Start where the proof source is clean and the risk is contained, not where the spotlight is. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-workflow-readiness-scorecard-where-ai-can-help-safely/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-workflow-baseline-measure-cycle-time-volume/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How to baseline cycle time, volume, exception rate, cost, and quality before AI automation, so your ROI case survives contact with the CFO. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/the-ai-workflow-baseline-measure-cycle-time-volume/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/find-the-system-of-record-the-first-rule-of-reliable-ai/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Every reliable AI agent needs a system of record per fact. Here is how to assign authority across CRM, ERP, and docs so agents stop inventing state. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/find-the-system-of-record-the-first-rule-of-reliable-ai/]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical framework for understanding which AI tasks frontier model labs will capture, which work becomes commoditized, and where humans and companies should invest their time. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/what-ai-will-automate-closed-loop-vs-open-loop-work/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/workflow-discovery-for-ai-automation-map-the-process-before-2026/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Workflow discovery for AI automation finds where judgment lives, where handoffs break, and which steps to govern before you build a single agent. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/workflow-discovery-for-ai-automation-map-the-process-before-2026/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A plain-English breakdown of Mythos/Fable 5, ExploitBench, and why crash-to-code-execution capability changes AI cyber risk. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-cyber-exploitbench-crash-code-execution/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-safety-evals-evaluation-awareness-sandbagging/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[What Mythos/Fable 5 reveals about safety evals, evaluation awareness, sandbagging, and why models may behave differently under test. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-safety-evals-evaluation-awareness-sandbagging/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/anthropic-cb2-bio-risk-fable-mythos/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why Anthropic judged Mythos 5 below CB-2 despite strong biology results, and what that says about AI bio risk thresholds. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/anthropic-cb2-bio-risk-fable-mythos/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-same-weights-safeguards/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 use the same model with different safeguards for cyber, biology, chemistry, and trusted access. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-same-weights-safeguards/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/decagon-pricing-deployment-ownership/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[OpenNash]]></dc:creator>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[Compare Decagon pricing structure, deployment tradeoffs, workflow control, and ownership questions before choosing a customer support AI platform. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/decagon-pricing-deployment-ownership/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/natural-language-autoencoders-ai-model-mind/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic&#39;s Mythos/Fable 5 system card uses natural language autoencoders to show gaps between visible reasoning and internal activations. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/natural-language-autoencoders-ai-model-mind/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/recursive-self-improvement-testing-harness-ai-agents/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recursive self-improvement in AI will depend on evals, traces, Playwright tests, and human review as much as stronger models. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/recursive-self-improvement-testing-harness-ai-agents/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-customer-service-for-financial-services-audit-trails-soc/</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What banks and fintechs must verify before deploying AI customer service: SOC 2 evidence, audit trails, and the exact questions FFIEC and CFPB examiners ask. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-customer-service-for-financial-services-audit-trails-soc/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/what-is-ag-ui-agent-user-interaction-protocol/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AG-UI is an event protocol for connecting agent backends to user-facing apps. Here is what it standardizes, how it differs from MCP and A2A, and where it fits in production agent architecture. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/what-is-ag-ui-agent-user-interaction-protocol/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/agentforce-vs-sierra-vs-decagon-vs-opennash/</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Compare Agentforce, Sierra, Decagon, and OpenNash across pricing, workflow fit, ownership, integrations, auditability, and lock-in. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agentforce-vs-sierra-vs-decagon-vs-opennash/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-consulting/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[OpenNash designs, builds, and operates production AI agents with evals, integrations, routing, memory, and human review. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-consulting/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-pricing/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Compare AI agent pricing models for Sierra, Agentforce, Intercom Fin, Zendesk, Decagon, and custom OpenNash builds. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-pricing/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/hipaa-compliant-ai-customer-service-what-healthcare-buyers/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A buyer-side checklist for HIPAA-compliant AI customer service: BAAs, subprocessor coverage, PHI logging, model isolation, and human-in-the-loop. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/hipaa-compliant-ai-customer-service-what-healthcare-buyers/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/why-you-need-an-ai-services-partner-agi-ships-but-it-does/</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Anthropic cookbooks teach by example: useful agents come from runtime shape - tools, evals, graders, and lifecycle - not magic prompts. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/what-the-anthropic-cookbooks-reveal-about-building-agents/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most teams treat AI agent launch as the end. It&#39;s the start. Here&#39;s the operating model, checklist, and post-launch questions that separate live systems from demos. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-deployment-is-not-the-finish-line-the-operating/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[An open AI strategy with model routing, traces, and memory beats vendor lock-in. Own the harness, swap the models, keep leverage in 2026. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/open-ai-strategy-why-model-routing-traces-and-memory-beat/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The phrase that matters in enterprise AI isn&#39;t autonomous agent. It&#39;s verifiable outcome. Here&#39;s how to build agents with measurable proof. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/verifiable-outcomes-why-the-best-ai-agents-start-with/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.6, and DeepSeek V4 Pro now rival Opus 4.5 on enterprise tasks. The real moat moved to workflows, evals, and guardrails. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/open-source-just-caught-up-to-opus-45-why-the-moat-is-the/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tested comparison of Retell, Bland, Synthflow, Sierra, and custom voice stacks across latency, telephony, handoff, compliance, and switching cost. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/best-ai-voice-agents-for-customer-support-retell-bland/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A decision framework for choosing between AI customer support platforms and custom AI agents based on workflow complexity, data control, and exit cost. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-customer-support-platform-vs-custom-ai-agent-build-buy/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Real Zendesk AI agent pricing for 2026: suite seats, included AI agents, automated-resolution fees, setup costs, and the hidden expenses most buyers miss. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/zendesk-ai-agent-pricing-what-you-pay-before-the-ai/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sierra AI starts at $150K/year with outcome-based pricing. Here&#39;s what &#39;resolution&#39; actually means, the hidden risks, and four cheaper alternatives. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/sierra-ai-pricing-what-outcome-based-really-costs-and-when/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentforce vs Sierra comparison covering pricing, channels, customization, and lock-in. Plus when a custom AI agent beats both platforms. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/agentforce-vs-sierra-vs-custom-ai-agents-which-customer-ai/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI coding agents work when the harness makes work bounded, checkable, structured, and verifiable. Here is the practical architecture for teams. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-coding-harnesses-stop-writing-code-start-writing-harnesses/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Notion rebuilt its AI agent five times. Here is the architecture lesson for teams building custom agents, evals, tool layers, and workflow automation. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/notion-ai-agent-architecture-5-rebuilds-100-tools/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI agent deployment is not a software install. Here is the playbook for shipping production agents and when an implementation partner pays for itself. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/why-you-need-a-professional-services-partner-to-deploy-ai/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A buyer&#39;s guide to build vs buy AI customer support in 2026. Real 3-year TCO for Sierra, Ada, Decagon, Intercom Fin, Salesforce Agentforce, and Zendesk AI vs custom-built agents - plus a decision framework you can use this week. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ai-agent-platforms-vs-custom-built-ai-the-real-3-year-cost/]]></description>
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      <link>https://opennash.com/blog/intercom-fin-pricing-reality-when-099-per-resolution/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Intercom Fin&#39;s $0.99/resolution pricing looks simple until you scale. A full cost and ownership breakdown of Fin vs. building your own AI agent, with real numbers. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/intercom-fin-pricing-reality-when-099-per-resolution/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ada&#39;s AI is genuinely good at standard customer support. But per-conversation pricing and platform constraints create a cost trap. Here&#39;s the honest comparison. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/ada-ai-review-2026-pricing-reality-platform-limits-and-when/]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentforce pricing starts at $2/conversation and scales fast. Here&#39;s when custom AI agents cost less, do more, and don&#39;t lock you into Salesforce. Originally published by OpenNash: https://opennash.com/blog/salesforce-agentforce-vs-custom-ai-agents-when-the-crm/]]></description>
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