<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Three Cubes: reviews, guides and analysis</title><description>Leader&apos;s reviews that translate global AI shifts into decisions for Asia and Australasia, each with a kit you can run in your own AI.</description><link>https://threecubes.ai/</link><language>en-au</language><item><title>What is an agent boss? How to manage AI agents like a team</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/agent-boss/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/agent-boss/</guid><description>An agent boss briefs, checks and manages AI agents the way a good manager runs a team. What the role involves, the four stages it grows through and where people stall.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>What an AI agent needs around it before you can rely on its output</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/agents-need-operating-discipline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/agents-need-operating-discipline/</guid><description>AI agents add capacity when the work around them has a role, sources, a quality bar, a stopping point and a named owner. A seven-part checklist for leaders.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Operating models</category></item><item><title>Why AI agents need memory, and what I learnt building it</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/ai-agents-need-memory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/ai-agents-need-memory/</guid><description>AI agents without memory start from zero every session, so early gains flatten. What agent memory involves, and what I learnt building and testing my own.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>AI fluency is a leadership capability now</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/analysis/ai-fluency-is-a-leadership-capability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/analysis/ai-fluency-is-a-leadership-capability/</guid><description>Leaders need enough AI fluency to judge whether the work, controls and accountability around AI are ready for its output to be trusted. What that means in practice.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category></item><item><title>Why most AI transformations stall at base camp</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/ai-transformation-base-camp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/ai-transformation-base-camp/</guid><description>Most AI programs measure deployment: tools live, licences bought. Rate of learning tells you more about results. Why Australia shows the gap clearly, and what to change.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI adoption</category></item><item><title>Consulting has an experience problem, and AI is making it worse</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/analysis/consulting-has-an-experience-problem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/analysis/consulting-has-an-experience-problem/</guid><description>AI works best in experienced hands, just as firms cut the graduate roles that build experience. Where the next experienced operators come from, and what firms can do.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Consulting industry</category></item><item><title>What enterprises pay for when they buy AI</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/analysis/enterprises-buy-outcomes-not-models/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/analysis/enterprises-buy-outcomes-not-models/</guid><description>Buyers ask how AI makes a job quicker, easier or better, and rarely which model it runs. Why job-specific AI products sell, and why shadow AI is a demand signal.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI products</category></item><item><title>The mask, the mission and the space between us: loneliness at work</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/loneliness-at-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/loneliness-at-work/</guid><description>Workplace loneliness often looks like competence: the busy, responsive colleague who no longer feels known. What the data says, and what colleagues and leaders can do.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category></item><item><title>The correction log: why AI agents repeat the same mistakes</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-correction-log/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-correction-log/</guid><description>A correction made in conversation stays in that conversation, so AI agents repeat the same mistakes. Writing corrections down as rules is what makes them last.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>The delegation trap: why capable people and agents keep doing the work</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-delegation-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-delegation-trap/</guid><description>Strong performers struggle to delegate because doing a task themselves is faster this week. AI agents fall into the same habit. How to spot it and how to break it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>The confidence trap: when an AI agent is certain and wrong</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-confidence-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/the-confidence-trap/</guid><description>AI agents sound equally sure whether they know or are guessing, and people tend to trust that fluency. Two standing rules that make agents say what they don&apos;t know.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>Culture comes before agents: what AI exposes about how you work</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/guides/culture-comes-before-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/guides/culture-comes-before-agents/</guid><description>AI agents do exactly what they are told, so they find every habit a team never wrote down. Why culture comes first with agents, and how to make it explicit.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>Agentic checkout in 2026: a review for Asia-Pacific retail leaders</title><link>https://threecubes.ai/reviews/agentic-checkout-asia-pacific-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://threecubes.ai/reviews/agentic-checkout-asia-pacific-2026/</guid><description>Agentic checkout is reaching Asia-Pacific by three routes. Ratings for eight markets and five organisation types, four options compared, and a kit to test it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Retail and consumer</category></item></channel></rss>