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The Distribution Desk
A founder-grade briefing on how builders, products, and ideas actually reach people — and why trust is the next frontier.
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Distribution Desk: the agent-trust gap stops being an architecture diagram and becomes a procurement line item — Verizon's DBIR naming machine identity as the control plane, SecureAuth sh…
Today on The Distribution Desk: liability is the through-line. JPMorgan Payments names the missing primitive (no framework for risk when an agent is the fourth party in a transaction), a sharp technic…
Today on The Distribution Desk: agent payments shipped before audit, insurance, and consumer-dispute rights did — and the prediction-market integrity reckoning got its 60 Minutes moment. A briefing ab…
Today on The Distribution Desk: verification is getting expensive. Prediction markets hit their mainstream-distribution moment and their integrity reckoning in the same week, the first large-scale age…
Today on The Distribution Desk: the trust layer for agents is getting priced — workload identity, credential brokers, and audit frameworks all landing in the same week that prediction markets get thei…
Today on The Distribution Desk: the agent trust stack is splitting into two layers — execution-time authorization and post-hoc behavioral proof — and enterprises are discovering they have neither. Plu…
Today on The Distribution Desk: the trust layer for agents is being built in public, prediction markets meet their first state-level felony statute, and the venture capital barbell keeps tightening ar…