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🚀 Welcome to a Special Double-Feature Deep Dive on AI Unraveled.

Today, we expose the two "invisible" economies reshaping business in 2026. Externally, we are entering the era of Business-to-Agent (B2A), where your next customer is a piece of code that doesn't care about your brand. Internally, we are witnessing the explosion of Shadow AI, where 98% of enterprises are running on "underground" intelligence that IT can't see or control.

We dissect the rise of "Moltbot" and the "Invisible Shelf," explain why the CMO is being replaced by the CTO, and reveal how employees are building a parallel infrastructure to bypass corporate bureaucracy.

Strategic Pillars & Key Topics:

🤖 Part 1: The Rise of B2A (Marketing to Machines)

• The "Ruthless Arbiter": Why autonomous agents like Moltbot and Gemini prioritize API latency and JSON data over brand storytelling.
• The Invisible Shelf: In a world of AI buying, there is no "Page 2." You are either the algorithmic answer, or you do not exist.
• New Protocols: The shift from SEO to AIO (Agent Optimization), and the rise of the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) as the "common language" of shopping bots.
• CMO vs. CTO: Why marketing is no longer about persuasion, but about data ontology, making the CTO the new custodian of the brand.

🕵️ Part 2: The Shadow AI Economy (The Internal Rebellion)

• The 95% Failure Rate: While corporate AI pilots stall in "purgatory," the Shadow AI economy is flourishing, with 78% of employees bringing their own tools (BYOAI) to work.
• The "Local" Underground: How employees are using tools like Ollama and LM Studio to run powerful models locally, bypassing corporate firewalls and DLP systems.
• The GenAI Divide: The gap between executives (who buy "brittle" enterprise tools) and employees (who use agile, consumer tools) has created a massive security blind spot.

Credits: This podcast is created and produced by Etienne Noumen, Senior Software Engineer and passionate Soccer dad from Canada.

Keywords

Business-to-Agent, B2A, Shadow AI, Machine Customers, Moltbot, Universal Commerce Protocol, UCP, Agent Optimization, AIO, BYOAI, Shadow IT, Ollama, Local Inference, Invisible Shelf

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