<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Field Notes - Arq AI Journal</title><description>Writing on AI architecture, operating models, and the unglamorous work of moving experiments into production.</description><link>https://arqai.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The agentic system is the new org chart.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/agentic-system-org-chart/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/agentic-system-org-chart/</guid><description>When AI takes ownership of a workflow, it inherits the same operational rules as a hire.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Speed-to-lead is a routing problem, not a hiring one.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/speed-to-lead/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/speed-to-lead/</guid><description>Why most teams chase headcount when the bottleneck is the first 90 seconds of a lead&apos;s life.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A working definition of &quot;revenue-grade&quot; for AI systems.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/revenue-grade/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/revenue-grade/</guid><description>Three tests we apply before we let an agent touch the P&amp;L.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How brands get cited (and excluded) in AI answer engines.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/ai-search-citations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/ai-search-citations/</guid><description>We tracked 600 prompts across four answer engines for sixty days.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Designing escalation rules an agent actually obeys.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/escalation-rules/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/escalation-rules/</guid><description>The difference between an agent that hands off cleanly and one that buries problems.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How a $40M ops team retired 32 SOPs in six weeks.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/ops-deployment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/ops-deployment/</guid><description>A field report from a multi-site fulfillment operator.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The four-loop marketing engine: brief, ship, measure, prune.</title><link>https://arqai.dev/blog/four-loop-marketing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://arqai.dev/blog/four-loop-marketing/</guid><description>Most AI-marketing setups stop at ship. The prune step is where lift comes from.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>