{"title": "What running AI agents in production taught us", "palette": "carbon", "slides": [ {"type": "cover", "photo": "img/studio.jpg", "pos": "55% 18%", "kicker": "Field notes from our agent fleet", "title": "What running AI agents *in production* taught us.", "byline": "Alex Shkor · Shkor Labs & Cooperative 42"}, {"type": "stat", "kicker": "01 · The audit", "value": "611/612", "label": "agent sessions in week one were *empty polling cycles*", "sub": "About 31M tokens spent on “nothing happened”."}, {"type": "quote", "kicker": "02 · The fix", "text": "Make agents *event-driven*, not scheduled.", "sub": "The fleet now burns nothing when idle: idle token cost dropped by 95%.", "visual": "chart-down"}, {"type": "quote", "kicker": "03 · Visibility", "text": "Autonomy without visibility is just *anxiety*.", "sub": "Leaderboard, work/idle accounting, daily reports: make every agent's day legible.", "visual": "network"}, {"type": "stat", "kicker": "04 · Governance", "value": "~4 min", "label": "for a board decision to become *law on every agent*", "sub": "Governance latency is a feature you can measure."}, {"type": "photoside", "photo": "img/car.jpg", "pos": "35% 30%", "kicker": "05 · Portability", "text": "Swap the model. *Keep the harness.*", "sub": "3 model migrations so far. Zero harness loss."}, {"type": "list", "kicker": "06 · Guardrails", "title": "Score what *matters*.", "items": ["Revenue dominates the score: the race is to profit, not busyness", "Money stays human-gated", "Every action is an auditable event", "Kill-switch per agent: revoke its token"]}, {"type": "final", "photo": "img/master.jpg", "text": "Every number here is a log, not an aspiration. *See the system.*", "cta": "cil.by"} ]}