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Cover for '52 AI Engineer Interview Questions'. Coral orange '52 questions.' headline on dark burgundy ground with a coral-orange sidebar listing the 5 question buckets and their counts: LLM API (10), RAG + Retrieval (12), Agent Frameworks (10), Evals + Observability (10), Prod Ops (10). Scoring 0-3 per answer.
Engineering
13 min read

52 AI Engineer Interview Questions

52 real AI engineer interview questions across LLM API integration, RAG and retrieval, agent frameworks, evaluation and observability, and production operations. With scoring rubric and what good answers look like. Used at Cubitrek to pre-vet every staff-augmentation candidate.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Cubitrek 2026 gamification marketing playbook cover, a stylised wheel of seven mechanics (quiz, streak, wheel, reveal, referral, tiers, quest, sim) on a dark teal ground with mint typography and three KPI tiles showing +38% median lift, 4-8x quiz vs form, and +128% D7 retention.
Growth Marketing
13 min read

Gamification Marketing 2026 Playbook

Seven gamification mechanics that move real marketing KPIs in 2026. Quizzes, spin wheels, streaks, tier programs, onboarding quests, two-sided referrals, and learning sims. With three Cubitrek case studies showing 4 to 8x lift over static funnels.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Stylised SaaS onboarding panel showing a 75 percent progress bar in mint with four milestone pills (create first project, complete one task, invite a teammate, assign their first task) on a dark teal ground.
Growth Marketing
9 min read

Gamified SaaS Onboarding

The implementation guide. Why gamified onboarding works (the boring research-backed part), the four mechanics that move SaaS activation, and a Cubitrek case study with 78 percent lift in net new paying customers.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Cover showing three lead-magnet mechanics on dark teal: a quiz card with five answer options, a spin-the-wheel mini, and a scratch reveal card, each with the conversion-rate range labelled in mint typography.
Growth Marketing
7 min read

Gamified Lead Magnets

Static forms convert at 2 to 4 percent on cold traffic. Quizzes, spin wheels, and scratch reveals convert at 12 to 38 percent. The short, sharable version: when each mechanic wins, when it loses, and the reward economy that determines lead quality.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Stylised passport bio page in mint type on a teal-black ground, showing the Agent Passport v0.1 spec with required fields (version, issuer, agent, authority, issuedAt, expiresAt, signature), an Ed25519 issuance stamp, and a machine-readable zone listing the spend ceiling, human-in-loop threshold, and SLA.
Industry Notes
11 min read

Agent Passport: The Identity Standard

An open standard for verifiable, business-issued identity and authority for AI agents that talk to other AI agents across organisational boundaries. One signed JSON file at /.well-known/agent-passport.json. Ed25519 over DNS. MIT-licensed reference verifier on npm. Cubitrek coined the term on April 28, 2026.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Stylised envelope cover reading 'Dear agent.' in mint type on a teal-black ground, with a mint sidebar listing the twelve Cubitrek roles bookable by AI agents: design, dev, content, social, SEO, AEO, vibe, mobile, account, sales, support, onboarding.
Industry Notes
7 min read

AI Agents Can Now Hire Humans

Cubitrek now exposes twelve senior human roles to AI agents over MCP, REST, and Schema.org ReserveAction. Eight build roles plus four front-of-house. The first agent-bookable staffing line. Match in six hours.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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Triangle infographic showing the three layers of 2026 search: SEO as the foundation, AEO as the snippet game, and GEO as the synthesis game, with shared schema, entity, and content edges.
AI Search
9 min read

AEO vs GEO vs SEO: The Triangle

SEO is the foundation. AEO is the snippet game. GEO is the synthesis game. They are not competitors. Run them as one program and they compound.

Faizan Ali Khan
Faizan Ali Khan
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