The Company Around the Agents

AI agents can now complete tasks that take experts 16 hours. Companies still trust them with minutes. I mapped 281 companies building autonomous systems to find out why. Introduction On September 2nd,

AI agents can now complete tasks that take experts 16 hours. Companies still trust them with minutes. I mapped 281 companies building autonomous systems to find out why. Introduction On September 2nd, Anthropic published its first blueprint for commerce agents. One agent builds a customer's cart; another works the merchant's side, watching inventory and drafting promotions, then waiting, because every change it proposes needs human approval. Twelve days later, the San Francisco startup Andon Lab