Field Notes on Trust and AI

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An independent publication on trust signals, media incentives, and AI-native behavior.

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We are using AI to do better research

McQueen Analytics is using agents to do better research and make more than twenty years of market research, our question database and quantitative methods available to more people and industries.

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AI changed what I need to hire for and what I owe a new employee

A new employee can reach a professional-looking answer faster than ever. The harder skill is knowing when that answer is wrong and being able to explain why.

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I can now complete so much more and yet I am responsible for everything I've done, which is a much larger mental load to carry.

Agents have given solo workers the stress load of SVPs who have to trust a workforce while remaining completely responsible for its output. McQueen Analytics is finishing much more than it did before the agentic shift in March, and by August I had more responsibility and context to carry than ever.

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A Namecheap outage finally moved my company email to Google

An email to my financial advisor never reached his mailbox. Nine months later, a Namecheap outage turned that warning into about 18 hours without company email.

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