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AI evaluation and monitoring

By Greg Nowak , 22 July, 2026

OpenAI Presence Is Here. Is Your Workflow Ready for an Agent?

A practical readiness test for OpenAI Presence: map the workflow, limit permissions, plan handoffs, evaluate real cases, and monitor production.

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Your AI Gateway Can Name the User. Decide What That Log Is For

2026-08-31

Identity-aware AI Gateway logs can sharpen security and cost control, but only when attribution, access, retention, guardrails, and response are clearly defined.

Zero Data Retention Is a Workflow Audit, Not a Checkbox

2026-08-30

Zero Data Retention covers the provider, not every copy in your stack. See how to audit endpoints, logs, storage, deletion and project-level controls.

MCP 2026-07-28 Is an Auth Migration, Not a Version Bump

2026-08-29

MCP’s July 2026 release removes protocol sessions and tightens OAuth. Here’s a practical plan for migrating clients, servers and enterprise access safely.

Turn a Technician’s Voice Note into a Work Order—Not Raw Audio

2026-08-28

Voice input can reduce the technician’s documentation burden when hours, materials and status are validated before the information is saved in the work order system.

ChatGPT Disabled Personal Knowledge Sync. What Broke on Your Team?

2026-08-27

ChatGPT retired personal sync connections for Enterprise and Edu. Here is how to find affected workflows, migrate access, and test permissions.

Cloudflare’s September Bot Defaults Could Quietly Cut AI Visibility

2026-08-26

Cloudflare’s September bot defaults give publishers more control, but one training block could also cut search crawling and AI-driven discovery.

Does Your AI Chatbot Clearly Identify Itself?

2026-08-25

The EU’s transparency requirements for AI chatbots now apply. Here is how to make your bot’s identity clear, limit its system access and provide a genuine route to a member of staff.

Should publishers add Google’s new Preferred Sources button?

2026-08-24

Google’s Preferred Sources button is worth a controlled test for eligible publishers, with careful choices around placement, performance and measurement.

Search Console Can See TikTok Now. Your Reporting Has to Catch Up

2026-08-23

Google can now report how social profiles appear in Search. Here is how to measure cross-channel discovery without mistaking visibility for business results.

Your AI workflow has logs. Can they explain one bad decision?

2026-08-22

Logs can show that every service worked while leaving a bad AI decision unexplained. See how connected traces and careful redaction close the gap.