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Brent Dixon

Designer, facilitator, and educator with over 20 years in community financial services.

agentic commerce

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The model is not the product.

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

The model is not the product.

Plus: AWS agentic payments, a Microsoft prompt-injection flaw, AI liability carve-outs, and a bank scramble over Mythos.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+11

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+10

Stripe rewired the credit card.

May 6, 2026

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7 min read

Stripe rewired the credit card.

Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the five eyes.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+10

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

Apr 29, 2026

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6 min read

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finance has a seat at the table.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+7

An Account for Every Agent

Apr 22, 2026

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4 min read

An Account for Every Agent

Plus: Claude Design, Gradient Labs on banking-agent transparency, and 3,000+ bugs patched by OpenAI's cyber model

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

personalfinancialmanagement

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Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.

Apr 15, 2026

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6 min read

Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.

Agentic finance arrived at both ends of the stack this week: Perplexity and OpenAI on the consumer side, Lloyds and Nymbus on the infrastructure side.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+3

The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know

Apr 9, 2026

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8 min read

The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know

A special report

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+8

The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year

Apr 8, 2026

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10 min read

The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year

Plus: Research on AI sycophancy, agent payment rails from Coinbase and Visa, and an open model credit unions can run on-site.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

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The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.

Mar 31, 2026

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9 min read

The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.

Plus: Citizens is spending $300M to have AI answer half its calls.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

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Who Authorized That Agent?!

Mar 24, 2026

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11 min read

Who Authorized That Agent?!

Plus: MSUFCU deployed an agent that finishes skip-a-pay requests without a human.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

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59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed

Mar 17, 2026

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6 min read

59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed

Plus: Fuse is paying 50 credit unions to ditch their legacy loan systems.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

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Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

Mar 10, 2026

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5 min read

Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

Stripe and Fiserv are building on the same rails.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

generative ai

+3

The Credit Union Movement Is Building Its Own AI Infrastructure. (The Alternative Is Renting Someone Else's.)

Feb 26, 2026

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14 min read

The Credit Union Movement Is Building Its Own AI Infrastructure. (The Alternative Is Renting Someone Else's.)

Plus: TD Bank quantified $170 million in AI agent value. Treasury just published AI risk guardrails.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

generative ai

+4

67% of Credit Unions Are Deploying AI. Only 16% Have a Plan.

Feb 18, 2026

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10 min read

67% of Credit Unions Are Deploying AI. Only 16% Have a Plan.

New research shows smaller institutions pay four times the transition cost when they rush in without a strategy.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

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Half of Financial Institutions Are Shifting Budgets to Agents

Feb 12, 2026

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6 min read

Half of Financial Institutions Are Shifting Budgets to Agents

Google Cloud's survey of 556 FI leaders shows where the money is going.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon
AI Agents Are Building Their Own Social Networks

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

AI Agents Are Building Their Own Social Networks

Plus: NCUA shares AI risk guidance credit unions should bookmark today

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon
The Delegation Equation: How to Boss Your Credit Union's AI Around

Jan 28, 2026

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6 min read

The Delegation Equation: How to Boss Your Credit Union's AI Around

Plus: Why so many agents disappoint, one that actually works, and the new rules of AI trust.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

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