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Building Brand Systems for Humans & Agents Today

Little Plains argues brand kits are becoming dual-native knowledge bases: human-readable guidelines plus agent-readable ~400-token chunks (YAML/JSON/Markdown) so teams and agents share the same positioning and voice.

Essay · AI · AI Agents · Startups · Writing

Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.

Blog post · AI · AI Agents · Engineering · Startups

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.

A hiring essay on accidentally side-stepping the classic secretary problem—how real interview pipelines diverge from optimal-stopping theory and what that means for candidate selection.

Essay · Career · Engineering Leadership · Startups · Opinion