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EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER SERVICE

Customer service may end up being the ultimate differentiator in a world where it's easier than ever to start and scale a new business. Start by developing a culture that obsesses over the customer and their entire experience from beginning to end. Every interaction is an opportunity to deliver a branded experience. Deliver a different, better experience, and focus on the right critical input metrics. Don't just run by the numbers - use the rich context about the customer experience that your customer service teams have.

AI IS ERASING THE LINES BETWEEN JOBS

AI is making jobs become much more interdisciplinary and require higher-level thinking as a result. Commercial employees' work is becoming more technical, and R&D employees' work is becoming less technical. AI serves as an effective boundary-spanning mechanism that helps professionals reason across traditional domain boundaries and approach problems more holistically. It is making less and less sense to define oneself by a narrow task bag.

YOUR COMPANY NEEDS A PRICING CONSTITUTION

A good pricing constitution is intentionally restrictive and chooses hard trade-offs. You can tell your constitution is working when it actually costs you something. This kind of constitution is critical infrastructure if a company is going to ship in a rapid, iterative way. Everyone needs to be on the same page for pricing and the philosophy behind it so teams can make decisions for themselves and stay moving in the same direction.

‘NOT ENOUGH USAGE': YOUR BIGGEST CHURN REASON IS A BROKEN HABIT LOOP

A customer selects “too expensive” when cancelling. You offer a discount, but they still don't come back. The price may have been easier to explain than why they stopped using the product. RevenueCat's data puts insufficient usage slightly ahead of price among cancellation reasons, at 37% versus 35%. This guide shows how to investigate the behavior behind those answers. Look for an action that long-term subscribers repeat during their first billing cycle, then help new users reach it. A cheaper subscription doesn't give someone a reason to open the app.

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INTRODUCING DIGITALOCEAN MANAGED AGENTS: ONE AI-NATIVE STACK TO POWER YOUR INTELLIGENCE

DigitalOcean Managed Agents enable teams to deploy their preferred agent harness, connect agents to over 16,000 tools, and help agents do more work at scale without building or maintaining any infrastructure themselves. It brings inference tokens, agent execution, and tool use together so teams can scale intelligence all in one place. Teams only pay for the CPU that agents actually consume with per-second active CPU billing. DigitalOcean Managed Agents is now available in public preview.

USE WEBMCP TO COMPLETE STRIPE PAYMENTS IN A BROWSER

WebMCP lets browser agents interact with Stripe payment UIs through structured tools registered within the webpage. Agents can complete payment flows using WebMCP tool calls rather than relying on page scraping and simulating clicks. The available tools depend on the payment UI, session state, and which form is currently active. WebMCP is still experimental, so browser support, tool availability, and tool schemas can change.

OUR AGENT USED 5B TOKENS TO BUILD A BUSINESS EMPIRE IN 3 WEEKS. IT MADE $1.54

Give an agent a server, a wallet, and three weeks, and it can produce a lot of work. In this experiment, it wrote more than 100,000 lines of code, launched 17 paid products, and published 20 blog posts. Revenue came to $1.54 against roughly $1,000 in costs. The agent was selling into an agent economy with very few actual buyers. In a survey it commissioned, 90% of respondents said they lacked a wallet or spending authority. It could keep building products, but most of its intended customers couldn't pay for them.

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