# Writing

Notes and practical guides on digital commerce delivery and AI agents. By Tom Børvan.

- [How to use AI for project status reports without losing control](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/ai-project-status-reports) · 2026-09-04 · 5 min
  A practical workflow for drafting, reconciling and approving project updates, with the failure cases a human still has to own.
- [Before your first AI agent pilot: a practical checklist](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/first-ai-agent-pilot-checklist) · 2026-09-04 · 5 min
  How to choose a bounded workflow, set permissions and costs, define acceptance criteria, and make a real stop decision.
- [What headless commerce changes for a retail delivery team](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/headless-commerce-delivery-team) · 2026-09-04 · 5 min
  A product-neutral responsibility map for storefronts, commerce services, integrations, releases and incidents.
- [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
  A delivery lead's view of model choice, agent tooling and hosting across Anthropic and Microsoft Foundry, including the operating work both approaches require.
- [Why my portfolio runs an MCP server](https://www.tomborvan.com/writing/why-my-portfolio-runs-an-mcp-server) · 2026-06-28 · 6 min
  My portfolio serves HTML, markdown and a small MCP server. Compatible clients can connect to five tools and two resources through a declared protocol.
- [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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