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October 1, 2025

AI Agents Explained: The clear, no-hype definition

“Agents” have become one of the biggest hyped and most misused terms in AI. So here’s the real definition from someone who builds AI solutions for a living.

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Greg Shove
Edmundo Ortega
7 mins
For students
AI
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September 26, 2025

There’s plenty of AI ROI - if you’re willing to work for it

A theme emerged in the chat of this year's AI:ROI Conference: 11 experts shared their value-adding AI strategies but people were just looking for magic formulas. Here were the biggest insights we think they overlooked.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
4 mins
For students
AI
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September 18, 2025

Is AI good enough to lay off your engineers?

Are AI coding tools good enough to replace humans? Here’s the verdict from a founder who had to make that choice.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For students
AI
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September 10, 2025

How to hire AI power users

If you want an AI-first team, you need to hire AI-first people. But, like critical thinking, this is not a skill you can suss out with scenario-based questions – you need to see it in action. Here’s how we do it at Section.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
AI
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March 3, 2023

3 steps to uncover your real competitors (hint: they may not be who you think)

April Dunford is a product positioning expert who helps executives zero in on the real competitive alternatives to their product.

In this post, we’ll share some of her tips.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 mins
For students
Product positioning
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March 3, 2023

7 steps to writing a powerful sales pitch

In life, great stories can have a profound impact. Hence why you (we) wept like a baby at the end of Titanic.

But great stories don’t just belong on the big screen. Their power belongs in the business world too. The key to a sales pitch that wins clients, gets business, and drives results? You guessed it. Storytelling. 

In this post, we’re going to walk you through positioning master April Dunford’s sales story framework. This is the narrative that helps you easily communicate the unique value of your product to customers.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
8 mins
For students
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May 16, 2025

How to use AI microapps without compromising security

AI can now code you a custom ready-to-deploy application in sub-10 minutes, just by prompting it. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega walked us through the huge opportunity of these microapps – and the huge risks.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For companies
AI
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May 10, 2025

Leaking our own AI manifesto

We’ve been all in on AI for a while – but this week we made it official. In this week’s newsletter, Greg is sharing his newest thinking on AI, and why we changed our domain to sectionai.com.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
7 mins
For companies
AI

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