Evaluate

How to choose an AI agent platform: questions to ask before you buy

There are hundreds of agent products and the labels blur. These are the questions that separate a platform you can rely on from one you will regret.

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The Agent Directory and Deals

Build, buy or bring in an implementer: three ways to get an AI agent

You can build an agent yourself, buy one ready-made or pay a specialist to set one up. Each route suits a different business. How to choose.

The Agent Stack

AWS launches Kiro Crew bots to add persistent agents to its dev environment

AWS expands its Kiro platform with named bots that keep their own memory, aiming to simplify multi‑agent workflows for developers.

The Agent Stack

Box adds Nvidia Nemotron to speed up agent content retrieval

Box's new Content Retrieval feature uses Nvidia's Nemotron embeddings to make agent queries faster, more accurate and cheaper.

Agent Security and Trust

Claude adds personal finance tool that reads your bank data

Anthropic’s Claude can now connect to bank and credit‑card accounts via Plaid to answer spending questions, in a read‑only beta for US Pro, Max and Ultra users.

The Agent-or-Hire Scorecard

Should this job grow through people or through systems?

Seven questions about one job in your business. Each answer scores 0 to 3, so the total runs from 0 to 21.

Four possible answersHire someone. Improve the process first. A person and an agent together. Or agent-led, with a person approving the exceptions. Take the Scorecard.