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By Greg Nowak , 10 June, 2026

An AI Voice Agent Needs More Than a Phone Number and a Realtime Model

A practical guide to choosing an AI voice architecture and designing routing, handoffs, multilingual calls, observability, and cost controls.

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From Supplier PDFs to Product Data: Where AI Needs a Second Check

2026-09-07

Supplier files need more than extraction. Here’s how to check coverage, match SKUs, resolve unclear units and prices, and test product data before a catalogue import.

Shorter TLS Certificates: Will Your Renewal Setup Keep Up?

2026-09-06

Shorter TLS certificates leave less room for renewal problems. Check domain validation, scheduling, deployment and the certificate your customers actually receive.

Your AI Image Has Content Credentials. Will Your Website Keep Them?

2026-09-05

AI image credentials can disappear during routine website processing. Learn how to test your CMS, optimizer, CDN, and publishing workflow end to end.

What Are Customers Asking? Let AI Find the Patterns in Support Tickets

2026-09-04

AI-based ticket analysis can uncover recurring complaints, product defects and gaps in documentation—without the company needing yet another chatbot.

OpenAI Has Machine Identity Now. Which Jobs Should Lose API Keys?

2026-09-03

OpenAI’s X.509 workload identity can replace API keys for the right workloads. This practical framework helps teams decide where to start safely.

WordPress 7.1 Exposes AI-Ready Actions. Who Gets to Run Them?

2026-09-02

WordPress 7.1 helps AI agents discover and invoke site abilities. Here is how to keep exposure, authentication and permission firmly separate.

From Sales Meeting to CRM: Automate Follow-Up Without Compromising Data Quality

2026-09-01

How to use AI for meeting notes and follow-up while fixed rules protect CRM data, customer matching and the sales pipeline from errors and premature changes.

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.