hcd.ai Human-Centred AI — in practice, in product, in leadership. 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ Sasha Merzliakov Get Ready for the GenUI Web 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/product-strategy/get-ready-for-the-genui-web/ AI agents now sit between the brand and the customer and assemble the experience at runtime. The designer's job moves from drawing pages to setting the stage the agent performs from. ask.hcd.ai is the worked proof. What a One-Person AI Org Looks Like at 90 Days 2026-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/one-person-ai-org-90-days/ A one-person AI org at 90 days: 94 agents, 27 workflows, 4M+ words of compounding knowledge. What the platform contains, what it produced, and how to start. Burn Tokens, Not Headcount 2026-05-24T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/burn-tokens-not-headcount/ YC's Tom Blomfield argues the AI-native company isn't a Roman legion with copilots bolted on. It's a set of recursive self-improving loops, and the constraint is tokens not headcount. Accessibility Agent: An AI Team Member Breakdown 2026-05-19T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/agentic-ai/accessibility-agent-team-member-breakdown/ An AI agent team member is a markdown file. It is essentially a job description outlining the role, responsibilities and ways of working. Get the file right and one teammate scales to one hundred. Hiring, Promoting and Training AI Agents 2026-05-12T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/hiring-ai-agents/ AI agents are now hired, promoted, and trained on the same lifecycle a human workforce runs on, with different inputs, different speed, and different cost. Build and automate your own AI research agents 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/build-your-own-ai-research-agents/ Four automated research agents: weekly site scout, daily market digest, email pipeline, project dossiers. One rule: propose, don't publish. Measuring AEO: Get Started for $1 a Month 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/measuring-aeo/ The full content reporting stack I run for hcd.ai to measure AEO: 10 sources, ~$1/month, no third-party platform required. VUX: The Verification User Experience for AI Agent Teams 2026-04-14T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/agentic-ai/vux-verification-user-experience/ VUX (Verification User Experience) is the design discipline for managing AI agent teams, where the human role has shifted from tracking work to verifying output. Coined by Sasha Merzliakov. Why My Chief AI Officer Is an AI Agent 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/my-chief-ai-officer-is-ai/ The Chief AI Officer role has its challenges. Maybe it was never meant to be a human job. Here's why I made the CAIO an AI agent and how the org design works in practice. What does an AI-First C-Suite look like? 2026-03-30T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/what-does-an-ai-first-csuite-look-like/ An AI-first C-suite is an organisational structure where AI agents hold defined chief-level roles with explicit decision rights, domain ownership, and reporting lines. Combining the best of AI with the learnings behind the world's highest-performing leadership teams. Your AI Might Remember, But Does It Learn? 2026-03-24T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/your-ai-might-remember-but-does-it-learn/ Most AI resets after every conversation. There's a neuroscience-backed architecture that fixes this. A product leader explains what's missing, why it matters, and what he built. Your AI Budget Is Too Small 2026-03-23T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/your-ai-budget-is-too-small/ Jensen Huang's GTC 2026 challenge to enterprise leaders: if your $500K engineer isn't consuming $250K in AI tokens, something's wrong. What this means for AI budgeting. Why Is Claude Slow? Fix It With a Network Speed Test 2025-07-31T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/get-faster-internet-speeds-with-claude-desktop-commander/ Slow Claude on wi-fi or a sluggish connection? Use Claude Desktop Commander to run a network speed test and get a step-by-step fix. Works on Mac and Windows. ChatGPT Agent vs. AI Workflow Tools: Is this the beginning of the end for n8n, Make and Zapier? 2025-07-18T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/chatgpt-agent-vs-ai-workflow-tools/ ChatGPT Agent vs n8n, Make, and Zapier. What OpenAI's new agent means for AI workflow tools and why 2025 is the year frontier models take back ground. n8n AI workflow hack 2025-07-14T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/n8n-ai-workflow-hack/ Skip the learning curve: use Claude to generate n8n workflow JSON files, then import and configure. A fast hack for getting started with AI automation. Free Receipt Extractor AI workflow 2025-06-22T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/free-receipt-extractor-ai-workflow/ A free n8n AI workflow that extracts receipt data automatically. Download the JSON, import into n8n, and start processing receipts in minutes. The 10 Types of Thinking Needed for the AI Future 2025-06-16T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/10-types-of-thinking-for-the-ai-future/ The 10 essential thinking skills for working alongside AI. From first principles to systems thinking, each with practical workplace applications and exercises. AI Agents: The New Digital Employees 2025-06-13T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/agentic-ai/ai-agents-the-new-digital-employees/ How AI agents are becoming digital employees. McKinsey research on autonomous decision-making, enterprise use cases, and the shift from rule-based to agentic AI. Stop paying for AI subscriptions! 2025-06-08T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-in-practice/stop-paying-for-ai-subscriptions/ A practical AI tool setup that cuts subscription costs without sacrificing capability. The stack a practitioner actually uses daily after months of trialling. What's driving AI search visibility 2025-06-06T00:00:00Z https://hcd.ai/ai-leadership/whats-driving-ai-search-visibility/ 15 factors driving AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Research-backed insights on Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) for organic growth.