Weekly briefing for founders & operators who build with AI agents
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Agents are no longer a feature — they're the product layer. This week, Microsoft priced that reality at $99/user, EY ran a six-month research project in one day, and ADP handed HR over to autonomous agents for a million employers.
EY recreated a full Global Wealth Management Survey — 53 questions, six months of traditional fieldwork — in a single day using Aaru's agent swarm (thousands of AI agents simulating human respondents). Statistical correlation: 90%. Aaru just closed a Series A at $1B valuation.
That number isn't about speed. It's about what "market research" costs now. If you're still paying $50K for a survey firm to take four months to tell you what your customers think, you're operating on 2023 assumptions. Synthetic research at human-level accuracy is live and priced for scale.
Microsoft's new 'Copilot Cowork' (launching May 1, bundled in Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite at $99/user/month, powered by Anthropic's Claude) turns Copilot into a full autonomous agent — email triage, meeting management, workflow delegation. The Agent 365 control plane adds $15/user on top. This is the enterprise default agent stack for the next three years.
Claude Code v3.7+ now spawns parallel sub-agents to review different files simultaneously, run tests, and flag conflicts — no orchestration glue required. If your team is still doing sequential human code review as a gate, you're adding 24–48 hours to every PR cycle for no reason.
Dataiku launched 'Agent Management' (part of their Platform for AI Success, March 9) — a cross-platform control tower monitoring agents across AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex, Databricks, and Google. It tracks business KPIs, not just uptime. Regulators and enterprise procurement teams are starting to ask for agent audit trails.
Tool: Aaru (aaru.ai)
Use case: Synthetic market research with AI agent swarms
Swipe this prompt for your next customer discovery sprint:
"Simulate [X] respondents matching this ICP: [job title, company size, industry]. Ask them: [your 5–10 survey questions]. Return distributions, key themes, and verbatim outliers. Flag any question where simulated responses diverge significantly from expected human behavior."
Run it before you spend a dollar on Typeform or a research firm. Use the output to sharpen your questions — then run the real survey on the 20% you're still uncertain about. EY got 90% correlation at 53 questions. You'll get enough signal to ship.
Forward this to one operator who's building with agents. That's the whole ask.
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