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Pega's fix for runaway AI costs: stop the agents from thinking at runtime

06.13.26 11:55 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

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At its PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas on June 8, 2026, Pegasystems announced Pega Infinity 26, which it says will be available in Q3 2026. The principal change is commercial: Pega is moving away from per-token pricing for its AI agents toward a flat charge per completed "case," ...

Don't Step Into The Platform Trap: What Microsoft Build 2026 Could Mean for Your Next AI Stack Decision

06.06.26 5:04 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Microsoft Build 2026 produced two announcements that, read together, describe something more interesting than the usual conference launch cadence: a plausible scenario in which enterprise AI stack decisions made in the next 12 months could become significantly harder to reverse. The operative word i...

Your Sales Funnel Is an Architectural Disaster, And How to Change This

06.02.26 3:35 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Every single week, I sit through pitches from enterprise software vendors boasting about the next iteration of their " AI-powered sales pipeline optimization platforms". They promise to auto-magically turn cold leads into closed contracts while minimizing human intervention. That sounds gr...

The Sales Automation Mirage: Why More AI Means Less Signal

05.24.26 9:38 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The contemporary B2B sales landscape is currently drowning in its own engineering achievements. For the past decade, the holy grail of outbound sales development was scale: how many touches could an automated sequence tool squeeze out of a Sales Development Representative (SDR) per day? The answer w...

Zendesk's Specialist Bet Is the Right One; and Here's What Would Make It a Moat

05.22.26 8:40 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

If you only read the press releases, Zendesk Relate 2026 told a strong, clean story. The era of the chatbot is over. Welcome the Autonomous Service Workforce. Resolution replaces deflection. Outcome-based pricing is the new norm. Specialization beats generalist orchestration.

That’s strong. Really st...

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