Press kit
Everything a journalist, analyst, or researcher needs to cover Agent Mode AI accurately. Bio, brand assets, contact, and quotable claims with current verdicts.
Last updated: 16 May 2026.
Contact
- Email: peter@agentmodeai.com
- X / Twitter: @agentmodeai (publication) · @agent_mode_ai (canonical handle)
- LinkedIn (Peter): peter-walda-2420488
- Author page: /about/peter/
- Production model: /how-its-written/
- Editorial standards: /standards/
About Peter Walda
Peter signs off on every piece published by Agent Mode AI — a publication for senior IT leaders tracking the agentic AI market. Claude writes the pieces; Peter sets the brief, verifies the sources, and owns every claim on a 30–90 day review cycle.
Bio variants (50 / 150 / 300 word) · pending Peter
50-word version — for analyst quote attributions:
[PETER: provide ~50 words. Format: name · current title · publication · one credibility hook.]
150-word version — for general press releases and panels:
[PETER: provide ~150 words. Add background, what AgentMode covers, why the production model is unusual.]
300-word version — for in-depth profiles:
[PETER: provide ~300 words. Add the longer arc — Shell, GAUGE, the Holding-up motivation.]
Knows about: Agentic AI · Enterprise AI Governance · AI Risk and Resilience · Federated Model Governance · Enterprise IT Operations
Quotable claims (current verdicts)
The five most-recently-reviewed claims with verdict Holding. Verdicts are public and update on a 30–90 day cadence — please cite the claim ID and the verdict date so readers can see current state. Full ledger: /holding/.
- AM-133 · Holding · last reviewed 30 Jul 2026
The Q3 2026 quarterly claim review covering 1 May 2026 through 30 July 2026 is the publication's first cross-cycle bulletin: most claims published in Q2 have now cleared their first scheduled review, the Resources register has opened with five RES-* tools running on the same cadence discipline as AM-* and OPS-*, and the deadline-anchored cluster of eleven claims tied to the 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deployer-obligations enforcement window is in pre-enforcement state. The Q3 bulletin reports the verdict shifts that the Q2 bulletin could not yet measure; the Q4 bulletin in late October 2026 will report the post-enforcement readout.
Source piece: Q3 2026 Claim Review Bulletin: which claims moved, which held, and what the EU AI Act enforcement window did to the corpus
- AM-154 · Holding · last reviewed 15 May 2026
Enterprise AI compute growth in the credible 10x to 100x range by 2030 will absorb most of the renewable-buildout headroom the energy transition depends on, extending fossil reliance by roughly a decade unless enterprise IT functions begin modelling AI energy demand in kWh and including it in cloud and on-premise procurement criteria.
Source piece: The Energy Bill Nobody Budgeted For
- AM-CANON-001 · Holding · last reviewed 14 May 2026
AI-written commentary can be more verifiable, not less, than human-written commentary — when it is published inside an explicit accountability architecture with six components: disclosure, claim isolation, verdict tracking, dated retraction, primary-source pinning, and review cadence.
Source piece: The accountability architecture for AI-written publications
- OPS-066 · Holding · last reviewed 12 May 2026
For a services firm under 50 people, paid AI seats pencil at ~5-person firms only when at least 2 of 5 staff are knowledge workers spending more than 10 hours/week on text drafting, and they fail to pencil at 25–40-person firms if the firm-wide rollout includes less than 60% adoption — between those zones, the break-even is determined by adoption rate, not seat price.
Source piece: When AI doesn't pencil out: break-even seat math for 5-, 15-, and 40-person firms
- OPS-065 · Holding · last reviewed 12 May 2026
A solo agency delivering AI-assisted work to a client needs four contract clauses by Aug 2026 — disclosure of AI use, IP warranty carve-out for AI-generated portions, training-data exclusion of client materials, and a liability cap tied to fee paid — without which the agency carries strict liability under EU AI Act Article 50 plus contract-law warranty exposure on copyright.
Source piece: Delivering AI work to clients: the 4-clause contract addendum every solo agency needs in 2026
For machine-readable access to the full ledger: /facts.json · /llms-full.txt.
Brand assets
Use of name and content
- Publication name: Agent Mode AI (single-word + space form). Avoid AgentMode or agentmode.ai.
- Author byline: Articles are written by Claude · curated and signed by Peter. The full disclosure model is at /how-its-written/.
- Quoting prose: CC-BY-4.0. Quote freely with a link back to the source article and the publication. Primary sources retain their respective licenses.
- Quoting claims: Cite the claim ID (e.g.
AM-127) and the verdict date. The claim text is immutable; verdicts move as evidence moves. - Citation primitives: /llms.txt · /llms-full.txt · /facts.json.