Your agent just tried to delete 2,847 emails from your inbox.
Civic blocked it. Read-only access.
Don't connect your agent to Gmail and hope for the best. Civic is the security layer that sits between your agent and every tool it touches. Guardrails aren't optional. They're built in.
Read about today's launch: https://t.co/pFxWxQK7mQ
Self-serve, from $49/mo. 7-day trial on Explore, no credit card. Point it at one signal you already trust. Stop watching signals. Start running them. https://t.co/7hDi6ZePHf
Bryn is live. The Signal-Based GTM agent for growth teams. It watches, scores intent against your own definition of a good account, runs the Play you approved, and records every step. https://t.co/f7kwJLXHVg
so we picked one job, for one kind of team, and we're building toward the product that runs it end to end.
we'd rather be the obvious answer to one expensive question than a plausible answer to all of them.
@hartcb, ceo: https://t.co/D4gn0lAkog
new in field notes: why we narrowed.
for years we were the team that could build almost anything. identity, blockchain, workflow automation. good work, mostly paying.
we stopped anyway. on purpose.
3/ so we stopped buying and built something with hands.
more on that next week. @bpw_Civic, our CGO, on the gap between a signal and a move:
https://t.co/Z2Xlp3hwmY
1/ a real buying signal fires at 10:02 on a tuesday. by thursday, someone finally sends a credible reply.
nobody did anything wrong. our stack was just great at seeing and terrible at acting.
2/ turns out the fix wasn't another tool. detection in one system, scoring in a second, outreach in a third, a human stitching them together while the moment died.
we'd bought better eyes over and over. eyes were never the constraint. hands were.
an agent that only watches is just another thing to watch.
new in field notes, from our ceo chris hart, on what actually ships an agent. https://t.co/7hv9S8xgtN
the story repeats everywhere right now: an agent demos beautifully, a budget gets approved, and six weeks later it's a tab nobody opens.
everyone blames the model. the model was almost never the problem.
what gets an agent into production, from a gtm seat, comes down to three things and none of them is intelligence:
a job narrow enough to finish. a loop from signal to action, not another dashboard. permission to act on a real buyer.
your go-to-market already has a staging environment. it's called prod.
it's every lead that hit the new routing rule before a human checked it.
ship the change to ten leads first. watch it. then send it to everyone.
none of it is hard. teach your team these five and they clear a bar most "ai users" never get over.
full piece, with the prompts to run each one: https://t.co/PoiLZi9pk1
what separates the operators getting real work out of ai from everyone still talking to a chat window is not a better model. it's about five habits. ten minutes to teach.
new piece: five ai habits for gtm operators.
the one most people skip: give it tools.
a model with no access to your systems is a brilliant intern with no logins. it can talk about your pipeline. it can't touch it.
connect it and it goes from talking about your work to doing it.