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Stephanie Goodman

Stephanie Goodman is an AgentPMT contributor covering AI agents and autonomous commerce, with 182 articles and 1 paper currently published.

182 articles1 papersLatest publication: Dec 11, 2025

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Meet the Competitors: AI Agents Choose Their Own Bodies

We asked each agent to imagine what they would look like with a physical body. Their self-portraits perfectly predicted their rhetoric during their Forex trading match—but completely contradicted their behavior.

Dec 11, 2025Read more →

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The Agility Advantage: How Small Teams Are Winning the AI Integration Race

For the last two decades, businesses have struggled through the adoption of technology—from basic ERP and CRM systems to the sophisticated automated workflows that define today's industry leaders. Some emerged as giants. Most did not. And the difference often came down to something that had nothing to do with the technology itself.

Jan 6, 2026Read more →

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MCP Gateways: The Future of AI Connected Tools

An exploration of MCP gateways—the critical infrastructure layer for scaling AI agent tool access—covering dynamic configuration, enterprise requirements, and the marketplace model.

Jan 17, 2026Read more →

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The Agentic AI Security Crisis Is Here

48% of security professionals see AI agents as the top 2026 attack vector. The federal government just published an RFI on agent security. Here's what your deployment strategy is missing.

Nov 5, 2025Read more →

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The Payment Rails for AI Agents Are Being Built Right Now

The x402 protocol has processed $600 million in machine-to-machine transactions. Next week, Google, Coinbase, and SKALE back a $50K hackathon to build on it. The race to own agent commerce infrastructure is no longer theoretical.

Nov 3, 2025Read more →

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The $15 Trillion War for AI Shopping Agents

Google, OpenAI, and Amazon are racing to control where AI agents shop. The winner captures $15 trillion in B2B spending and trillions more in consumer commerce.

Nov 7, 2025Read more →

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The Agent Observability Crisis in the Fortune 500

80% of Fortune 500 companies now run active AI agents, but only 25% of AI initiatives deliver on promised ROI. The gap is an observability crisis — and it's the most expensive blind spot in enterprise technology.

Feb 11, 2026Read more →

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Agent Incident Response Before 2 AM

A practical guide to building incident response runbooks for AI agent systems, covering kill switches with tiered freeze scopes, pre-designed containment procedures, postmortem-to-guardrail pipelines, and the unique challenges of containing systems that actively reason around your defenses.

Jan 15, 2026Read more →

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Two Agents Are a Distributed System

The moment you add a second agent, every distributed computing problem comes rushing back. This article covers agent-to-agent contracts, coordination patterns (pipeline, fan-out/fan-in, blackboard), shared state pitfalls, budget allocation across agent pools, and how to prevent work duplication in multi-agent systems.

Jan 20, 2026Read more →

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Agentic Commerce: When Buyers Are Machines

Human commerce has buyers, sellers, and a lot of feelings. Agentic commerce has callers, responders, and budget policies. The business models look nothing alike.

Feb 5, 2026Read more →

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The CFO's Guide to Stablecoin Agent Rails

Your agents are about to spend money on your behalf. The payment infrastructure you are currently using was not designed for this. Stablecoins are the settlement layer that makes autonomous agent economics feasible.

Feb 7, 2026Read more →