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Productivity

Everything we’ve published under Productivity so far.

2026-04-10 By Eli Mercer 5 min read

Deep research gets better when teams treat sources as part of the workflow

OpenAI’s 2026 deep research update adds MCP and app connections, trusted-site limits, progress tracking, and interrupts. That turns research prompting into something closer to a repeatable team process.

2026-03-04 By Eli Mercer 5 min read

AI agents need operating rules before they need a bigger org chart

Microsoft’s Frontier Firm frame is useful, but the first move for most teams is smaller: decide where agents can help, who checks the work, and what never runs on autopilot.

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