Where AI agents go next
Five essays, dated and sourced.
[ 00 ] In short
These are dated essays by Sandeep Kumar and Saurabh Kumar on where AI agents are heading for mid-market companies: AI-native services, forward-deployed engineering, the finance team of 2028, agentic commerce, and the parts of agent work that will not change. Each essay lists its sources at the end so any claim can be checked.
Key facts
- Essays
- 5SRC · Vikrama Studio · 2026-09
- Authors
- Sandeep Kumar and Saurabh KumarSRC · Vikrama Studio · 2026-09
- Length
- 900 to 1,200 words eachSRC · Vikrama Studio · 2026-09
- Sources
- Listed at the end of every essaySRC · Vikrama Studio · 2026-09
The essays
- The service is the productAI changes what a buyer pays for: the finished work, not the tool.
- Forward-deployed, for companies Palantir will never callThe model is right. The price excludes almost everyone.
- What the finance team looks like in 2028Agents take the matching and the preparation. People keep judgement and sign-off.
- Agentic commerce: the boring work winsThe checkout experiments come and go. Clean product data stays.
- What will not changeModels change every quarter. The discipline around them does not.
Questions
- Who writes these?
- Sandeep Kumar, Co-founder and CTO, and Saurabh Kumar, Co-founder, Growth and Execution.
- Are the numbers sourced?
- Yes. Every essay ends with its sources, and figures reported by others are flagged as reported.
- How often are new essays added?
- When there is something worth saying with a source behind it, not on a schedule.
- Can we reuse them?
- Quote and link freely, with attribution to the author and the date.
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