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Curated industry notes from Cubitrek. Platform updates, research papers, and movements across AI, search, and growth marketing that shape how our clients' programs need to evolve.
MCP lets an AI assistant use your ERP, POS or warehouse system directly, not through a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. What the protocol changes, and the three things that have to be true before you connect anything.
Faizan Ali KhanIndustry Notes
Hire an AI engineer in 2026 and you face a market that did not exist three years ago. The role splits into 5 sub-specialisations, US senior salaries cleared $300k base in 2025, and remote staff augmentation now ships at $2k-$5k/mo for the same seniority. This guide tells you what to look for, what to pay, and when to skip a full-time hire entirely.
Faizan Ali KhanAn 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 in the spec repo. Cubitrek coined the term on April 28, 2026.
Faizan Ali KhanCubitrek 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 KhanA single-player agency is a small senior team that delivers full-stack client work by directing AI agents instead of staffing humans. Cubitrek's manifesto for the category, coined April 2026.
Faizan Ali KhanInstitutional vs product advertising in 2026: when to build brand, when to sell, and how AI creative plus AI-answer visibility change the math.
Samrina KhanA 2026 guide to Google Business Profile optimization: the ranking factors that move the local pack, plus how to get cited in AI Overviews.
Faizan Ali KhanBrand storytelling in 2026 is also entity reinforcement. The 6 storytelling techniques senior operators are running now, plus the AI-era brand-narrative pattern that compounds across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Samrina KhanIndustry Notes
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