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ARTICLEOct 2026
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Fix the Data Before You Build the Agent

Companies race to deploy AI agents on messy, fragmented data and wonder why outputs are wrong. The model is not the problem. The data underneath is.

Frederike Falke
GLOSSARYThe language of the layer.

Sixteen terms — from governed intelligence layer to ISO 42001 — defined in one place.

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MONITOR 2026How do small businesses actually use AI?

Our field study is running in New York and NRW. Ten minutes, anonymous if you want.

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TOOL REVIEWMay 2026
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A Small Tool That Gets One Thing Very Right: Granola

Granola combines your live notes with call recordings to produce one clean output. No bots joining calls. No sprawling feature sets. Just the bridge between human notes and AI transcription done right.

Frederike Falke
ARTICLEMay 2026
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Why Most AI Projects Succeed at Build and Fail at Adoption

We see this pattern across every industry we work in — market research, law, real estate, consulting. The build phase is complete. The system works. The handoff slides look good. Six months later, half the team has switched back to Excel.

Frederike Falke
ARTICLEApr 2026
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Stop Treating Contacts Like Rows in a Database

Most CRMs turn people into data points. You lose the human connection when every interaction becomes a form to fill. Here's why conversational AI changes everything about how we manage relationships.

Frederike Falke
ARTICLEMar 2026
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I Went to 200 Events and Lost Half the People I Met

Two years, 200+ networking events, and hundreds of lost connections later — here's the origin story of why we built an AI-native CRM that actually works for relationship management.

Frederike Falke
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