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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Asana's First Acquisition in 18 Years Exposes a Pricing Gap
Asana bought the no-code AI agent builder StackAI for $75 million, and its per-seat pricing model has no obvious place to put what it just acquired.
Bhavika J
Mistral Bets on Factories, Not Chatbots, With New Funding Talks
Mistral AI is in talks to raise about $3.5 billion weeks after launching an industrial engineering product with Airbus, BMW and EDF as customers.
Bhavika J
Prime Day Grew 9% While the Average Cart Kept Shrinking
Amazon's four-day Prime Day set a spending record in June, but the underlying order data shows shoppers buying in smaller, more frequent batches, a pattern that looks a lot like quick commerce.
Bhavika J
Assort Health Raises $120M Series C to Scale AI Patient Access Agents
Assort Health closed a $120 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation to expand its AI voice agent platform for scheduling, intake and referrals across specialty practices and health systems.
Bhavika J
Three-Way Matching: What It Checks, and Why It Still Breaks
A look at what three-way matching actually verifies before an invoice gets paid, and why automated versions of it still generate so many manual exceptions.
Bhavika J
India, the EU and the US Just Hit Payroll With Three Different Deadlines
A look at three unrelated but simultaneous compliance deadlines in June 2026, India's Income Tax Act transition, the EU's missed pay transparency deadline, and new US tip-reporting rules, and what each means for payroll teams.
Bhavika J
How AI Quality Scoring Actually Works in the Contact Center
A breakdown of how contact centers use AI to score call quality, what changes when every interaction gets reviewed instead of a small sample, and where the scoring still misses what customers actually feel.
Bhavika J
Bank of England Sets a Stablecoin Cap as bunq Opens Its Bank License
The Bank of England capped stablecoin issuance, Dutch neobank bunq opened its banking license to outside businesses, and India's digital lenders hit a hard compliance deadline, all in the same week of late June 2026.
Bhavika J
Data Contracts, Explained: Why the Industry Just Picked One Standard
A plain look at what data contracts actually enforce, how two competing formats just merged into one, and what still trips teams up when they adopt them.
Bhavika J
Pipeline Forecasting, Explained: How Sales Teams Predict Revenue
A look at how sales teams turn open pipeline into a revenue number, the methods CRMs use to do it, and where those numbers typically break.
Bhavika J
AWS, Azure and Google Roll Out Kubernetes 1.36 at Different Speeds
A look at how AWS, Azure and Google brought Kubernetes 1.36 to their managed services in June 2026, and what the gap between them signals for platform teams building on AI infrastructure.
Bhavika J
Google Splits Ad Consent From Analytics; Databricks Enters CDPs
Google made Consent Mode the sole gate for Google Ads data as Databricks launched an agentic CDP built on its lakehouse, and both moves change where marketing teams need to put their attention this quarter.
Bhavika J