The Wrong Default

The Wrong Default

The Compliance Agent That Isn't

When the machine is named after the function that failed.

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Thomas Tornatore
Jun 18, 2026
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Companies have started naming their support automation after the functions they are quietly removing. The compliance agent. The support agent. The escalation path. The label stays. The accountable human it implies is gone. And almost no one inside the company can see the gap, because every dashboard shows the conversations being answered.

This is not the…

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