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    <title>Murat Durak: Essays</title>
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    <description>Essays by Murat Durak. Newsletter: The Delegation Economy on Substack (https://delegationeconomy.substack.com/feed). Signal is its free Sunday edition.</description>
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      <title>The Delegated Customer: When the Buyer Is No Longer a Person</title>
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      <description>Agents now search, compare and pay on behalf of people. What changes for brands, funnels and loyalty when the customer you must persuade is software carrying a mandate.</description>
      <category>Technology &amp; Society</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Delegation Economy: Pricing Work That Nobody Watches</title>
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      <description>As agents take on whole tasks rather than single prompts, value shifts from software seats to delegated outcomes. What boards and CFOs should measure in the delegation economy.</description>
      <category>Strategy</category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Deployment Ladder: Five Rungs from Pilot to Production</title>
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      <description>A working model for moving enterprise AI out of the demo stage: evidence, ownership, evaluation, integration and standardisation, taken one rung at a time.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Teardown: Six Weeks to Two</title>
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      <description>An anonymised case teardown — problem, intervention, result — from a mandate that cut a customer operations workflow from six weeks to two.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Growth Systems Actually Do</title>
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      <description>Growth is not a campaign function. It is an architecture question: where revenue leaks, who owns each handoff, and which decisions can be made without a meeting.</description>
      <category>Growth</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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