Kin Lane believes that the bill for AI is coming soon, arriving on top of an overdue tab that has been accumulating for almost a decade, as API sprawl & application proliferation have outpaced businesses ability to understand, govern, or cost what has been built. thenewstack.io/ai-spend-bus...

Taming the agentic influx: a blueprint for AI business observability

API analyst Kin Lane tells The New Stack why business observability, FinOps, and MCP governance are essential to managing runaway AI spend in the enterprise.

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The bill is coming due.

Jason Gorman@jasongorman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As LLM usage prices rise, the CFO is going to enter the chat and ask a simple question - what value is the company getting from this? And you're not going to have a good answer, because you didn't ask that question yourselves.

Every legal, policy, and AI governance team I have talked to in the last six months is trying to keep up with the same thing — fifty states writing AI legislation in parallel, at different speeds, in different vocabularies, with nobody centralizing the picture.

A Fifty-State AI Legislation Tracker as One Naftiko Capability | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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I have been walking through the Naftiko Framework use cases one at a time, and this is the one I have been quietly saving for last. Capability-first API reusability. naftiko.io/blog/capabil...

Capability-first API Reusability: Turning Old API Investment Into New Experiences | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Explain to me why airplane wifi is slower despite being closer to the cloud

Exploring the MCP Registry deployment at Schneider Electric with Manu PK on this edition of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast, understanding more about large enterprise are taming the MCP sprawl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J79B...

MCP Registry Governance at Scale — How Schneider Electric Rolled Out MCP Safely

YouTube video by Naftiko

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Anthropic’s Building Effective Agents is the single most important reference document I have read in 2026. Inside the team here, we treat it as a week-to-week input rather than background reading. . naftiko.io/blog/anthrop...

Anthropic Calls It

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Apify just shipped the right pattern. Their new MCP Configurator lets a consumer pick 10–15 Actors out of the 25,000+ on the platform and expose just those to an agent through a custom MCP URL. Pre-configured. Bounded. Searchable when the agent needs to escape the box. naftiko.io/blog/apify-e...

Apify Engineered Its MCP Context Window. Naftiko Engineers the Fleet. | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Gathering the signals coming out of the financial services industry to understand how each company, and the overall sector is responding to the integration of AI into operations. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Naftiko Signals — Financial Services Industry Report

Gathering the signals coming out of the financial services industry to understand how each company, and the overall sector is responding to the integration of AI into operations.

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→ Is there an OpenAPI spec? → Is there an AsyncAPI? → Is there a Swagger 2 still hanging around? → Is there an MCP server descriptor? → Are there Agent Skills? → Are there JSON Schemas? → Postman collections? Bruno collections? www.linkedin.com/pulse/capabi...

A Capability Scanning for Swagger, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, MCP, Agent Skills, JSON Schema, Postman and Bruno Collections on Github.

When an agent walks up to a GitHub repo today, the first useful question it can ask is "what does this repo actually carry?" Not the README. Not the language histogram.

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Anthropic’s Microsoft 365 expansion turns Claude into a persistent cross-app workspace.

Claude can now follow users across Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Anthropic’s Microsoft 365 expansion turns Claude into a persistent cross-app workspace.

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Last week I participated embedded event at a larger builders conference in Philadelphia. The event itself was three hours. The room held about thirty people. The mix was startups, enterprise CIOs, and a handful of investors. naftiko.io/blog/engagem...

Engagement Beats Impressions — The Playbook Has Changed | Naftiko

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🧠 The conversation around AI for developers usually starts with the model. But inside @code, what really shapes the experience is the coding harness: the layer responsible for context, tool calling, agent loops, terminal execution, memory, and more. code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...

The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Learn why the coding harness around GitHub Copilot in VS Code matters as models, tools, agents, and providers evolve.

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A Naftiko “operations” capability - naftiko.github.io/visualizatio...

"More than half of large companies now manage more than 1,000 APIs. And, if each API has, on average, 10 operations, you end up with an inventory that is almost impossible to manage." apichangelog.substack.com/p/moving-fro...

Moving from API Operations to Business Capabilities

How to organize your API operations into business assets.

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There is a sentence I keep hearing in enterprise conversations, usually from a leader who is genuinely trying to move fast on AI and feeling pulled in two directions by their org. naftiko.io/blog/governa...

Governance Is the Engine, Not the Brake | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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I am at APIDays NYC for the second year in a row. The conference is still very much about AI and agents — that is the center of gravity and probably will be for a while. What has changed in twelve months is the texture of the conversation. naftiko.io/blog/apidays...

APIDays NYC 2026: The AI Conversation Is Getting Grounded | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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I am giving two talks at APIDays NYC this week. On paper they look like two different topics — API governance on Wednesday, OpenAPI examples and tags on Thursday — but they are really one argument from two sides. naftiko.io/blog/two-api...

Two APIDays NYC Talks, One Thesis: Governance Belongs at the Consumption Layer | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Three of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors on the planet just made the same move & it tells you exactly which decade their internal product roadmaps live in. Salesforce locked down agent access first. Slack followed a few weeks later. SAP just announced its own version. naftiko.io/blog/when-sa...

When SaaS Vendors Lock Down Their APIs, It's Not Security — It's a Product Failure | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Tell me you don't have a handle on API management without telling you don't have a handle on API management. - www.cio.com/article/4166...

SAP’s new API policy restricts AI access, draws customer criticism

Limiting API usage to “SAP-endorsed architectures, data services, or service-specific pathways,” SAP has encountered pushback from the DSAG user group over the scope and implications of the updated po...

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What if MCP servers are better deployed by API consumers for what they need, instead of API providers publishing their own MCP servers?

A pattern keeps repeating & we are watching it repeat right now in real time. A category opens up. A startup makes the entry point easy & free, gets people hooked at the team & individual level & then funnels everyone toward the SaaS-cloud version where the revenue lives. naftiko.io/blog/privati...

Privatize and Maintain — Not SaaS | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Listening to RJ Juliano of Parkway Corp and Bonnie Ravina talk as part of AI Discovery Lab: Enterprise Edition at technical.ly in Philadelphia about "Super-Mapping the AI Journey".

Naftiko - Spec-driven API integration for the AI era (@naftiko.bsky.social) Cossmology Profile: https://dub.sh/x4l4aHF Key People: Jérôme Louvel, Kin Lane #APIManagement #OpenSource #OSS #COSS

Naftiko | Cossmology

Spec-driven API integration for the AI era

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The Cannabis industry presents a tale of two competitive tiers. Curaleaf Holdings and Green Thumb Industries have built technology foundations that, while modest by cross-industry standards, represent genuine multi-layer investment across cloud, operations, data, and security. bit.ly/42ggpWG

Cannabis Industry Signals

Combined industry signals page for Cannabis — Impact Report, Impact Pages, Companies, Radar, Capabilities, and Navigation.

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I keep getting asked where Naftiko Capabilities came from. The honest answer is that they came from three places at once, and most of the conversation about agents in 2026 is only willing to talk about two of them. naftiko.io/blog/naftiko...

Naftiko Capabilities Have Three Parents: AI, APIs, and Domain-Driven Design | Naftiko

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fleet that teams can depend on.

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Today's Naftiko Capabilities podcasts revisits our talk with Budhaditya Bhattacharya and Supreet Nagi to talk about Zero-Touch Governance Under Pressure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW6G...

Helping the Short-Handed Team — Zero-Touch Governance Under Pressure

YouTube video by Naftiko

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50 repos. Zero catalog. Good luck finding that API. - github.com/naftiko/fram...

Palo Alto Networks' planned acquisition of Portkey turns the AI gateway from developer plumbing into an enterprise security checkpoint for agents.

Palo Alto Networks makes a $700M-class AI bet on Portkey gateway

Palo Alto Networks' planned acquisition of Portkey turns the AI gateway from developer plumbing into an enterprise security checkpoint for agents.

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