# Writing

Long-form notes on delivering digital commerce and building AI agents inside real client work. By Tom Børvan.

- [A PM with an agent chief-of-staff](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/a-pm-with-an-agent-chief-of-staff) · 2026-07-10 · 4 min
  What actually happened when I ran an AI agent as my own chief of staff for a few months: architecture, failures, and the rules that came from them.
- [Building AI agents on Claude and Microsoft Foundry: field notes from e-commerce delivery](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/building-ai-agents-claude-microsoft-foundry) · 2026-07-10 · 7 min
  Two agent stacks, one delivery lead's view: where Claude's tool use and MCP model win, where Microsoft Foundry earns its keep, and the mistake teams make when they scope agent work like ordinary software.
- [Why my portfolio runs an MCP server](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/why-my-portfolio-runs-an-mcp-server) · 2026-06-28 · 6 min
  A page built for human eyes is close to invisible to an agent. So my portfolio ships a real MCP server, in-page tools, and plain-text profiles, turning the smallest site I own into a lab for the agentic web.
- [What 15 years of e-commerce delivery taught me about shipping AI agents](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/fifteen-years-ecommerce-shipping-ai-agents) · 2026-06-15 · 6 min
  The technology is new. The way agent projects fail is old: e-commerce replatforms already taught me most of the fixes.

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