# Stratt Labs — Journal

> Field notes from an agent-transaction-assurance practice: what happens when real frontier AI agents try to buy, book, and complete on real sites — and the receipts that prove the cause is the site, not the agent.

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## The Rails Moment Arrived. Execution Is the Last Mile.

2026-07-02 · [https://strattlabs.com/journal/execution-is-the-last-mile](https://strattlabs.com/journal/execution-is-the-last-mile) · markdown: https://strattlabs.com/journal/execution-is-the-last-mile.md
Tags: agentic-commerce, agent-readiness, eu-ai-act

In one week this June, three of the largest cloud platforms on earth quietly agreed on something: AI agents are no longer experimental. [Google](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/interactions/interactions-overview) made its agent-native interface the default way to talk to Gemini. [Vercel](ht…

## Everyone's building the rails for AI shopping. No one checks if the train arrives.

2026-06-16 · [https://strattlabs.com/journal/readiness-is-a-receipt](https://strattlabs.com/journal/readiness-is-a-receipt) · markdown: https://strattlabs.com/journal/readiness-is-a-receipt.md
Tags: agent-commerce, agent-readiness, webmcp

Some technical problems announce themselves loudly. The quieter ones tend to be more expensive.

## MCP in production — what nobody tells you

2026-04-28 · [https://strattlabs.com/journal/mcp-in-production](https://strattlabs.com/journal/mcp-in-production) · markdown: https://strattlabs.com/journal/mcp-in-production.md
Tags: mcp, infrastructure, production

Everyone's building MCP servers. Almost nobody's shipping them to production. Here's what the gap looks like from the inside — written while shipping one.

## Build first, sell second

2026-04-22 · [https://strattlabs.com/journal/build-first-sell-second](https://strattlabs.com/journal/build-first-sell-second) · markdown: https://strattlabs.com/journal/build-first-sell-second.md
Tags: strategy, products

The best way to know if something works is to ship it yourself. That's not philosophy — it's our operating model.

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