Three competing agent operating systems shipped inside a sixty-day window — Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Microsoft's Copilot Studio plus Agent Framework stack, and Anthropic Managed Agents — and Google's I/O 2026 pivot on Tuesday made the platform decision a CEO call this quarter, not a CTO project for next year. In this episode, Stephen Forte walks through the three-layer architecture every CEO needs to understand (brain, session, hands), compares the four real options with the companies running them, and explains why the harness decision matters more than the model decision. If you pick the right platform for where your people already work, you can have one Artisan on one workflow in production by Friday.

What you will learn:

• The brain-session-hands architecture: why keeping those three laye ...