Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran. His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about…
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It’s only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable…
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Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device. The company says…
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In this episode Luke breaks down the complete CTC email methodology as part of the Canon series. This is the framework CTC uses to build email programs that generate a median of 22% of total store revenue, with the scaffolding to push well beyond that for brands operating at the highest level. What you will…
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Presented by SAP HR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors and services spend. Together, they leave executives unable to answer basic questions about how workforce decisions actually translate into business outcomes. Fragmented planning creates workforce blind spots Each function has its own systems, its own planning cadence, and…
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In this episode of BRAVE COMMERCE, Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter speak with Neela Montgomery, Board Director at Ahold Delhaize and Logitech and former CEO of Crate & Barrel, about what major shifts in consumer behavior mean for brands and retailers. Drawing on a career spent at the intersection of consumers, retailers, and brands, Neela…
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The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak in March 2026. But over the weekend, OpenClaw’s creator Peter Steinberger and…
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In this episode, we’re talking about the payment option a huge chunk of your shoppers might be waiting for before they’ll even check out. We get into why it’s not just for budget shoppers, some of the surprising numbers behind it, and whether the upside for sellers is worth the tradeoffs. We also swap a…
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If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. The friction of writing syntax has collapsed. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic workflows now living inside our Docker containers and IDEs, generating the first implementation of a distributed streaming pipeline or a complex API…
Read MoreIn this episode of Commerce Famous, Jason Nyhus sits down with Bob Lewis, CEO and Founder of ImpaqX, for a deep dive into how wholesale distributors can turn digital commerce into a true business advantage. Bob shares how decades of experience across software, strategy, implementation, and wholesale distribution help his team design digital channels that are built around real customer needs—not just websites.
The conversation explores what it takes to simplify complex distributor workflows, from “shop by job” experiences that match how contractors actually buy, to tools that help sales teams and customers work faster with better product data. Bob also explains why digital shouldn’t replace salespeople, but instead free them up to focus on higher-value relationships and complex deals.
Jason and Bob dig into the metrics that really matter in B2B digital: attributed sales, self-service adoption, branch-level behavior, and the internal change management required to make a channel successful. They also discuss how AI is reshaping product content, quoting, and the future of distributor operations. If you’re looking to modernize wholesale commerce without losing the human touch, this episode is packed with practical insights.
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