Episode date: 2026-05-06

Format: Wednesday brief

Runtime target: 9-12 minutes

Agents are moving from answering questions to taking assignments. This episode connects Microsoft Copilot Cowork, Microsoft Agent 365, and Anthropic's financial-services agent templates into one operating question: when AI does the assignment, who owns the review?

• Delegation is becoming embedded inside everyday work surfaces, not just chat windows.
• Agent control planes help with inventory and governance, but dashboards do not replace workflow ownership.
• Vertical agents in finance make review, source lineage, evidence, and fallback ownership more urgent.
• Useful output is not the same as ready output.

By Wednesday, May 13, 2026, run a 30-minute delegation-quality review for one AI-assisted work ...