# Writing Brief

> ⚠️ **Illustrative example.** This brief and everything produced from it are a synthetic
> demo for the Flowtrace workflow — not investment advice or original reporting. Any
> reference to a real, named company is public and illustrative, used only to show how the
> piece is researched and written; nothing here is an endorsement or a negative claim about
> a named entity.

**Deliverable:** a long-form industry deep-dive — **"AI Agents in the Enterprise."**

- **Working title:** *AI Agents in the Enterprise: The 2026 Inflection*
- **Format:** long-form analytical article, ~2,000–2,500 words, publishable on a
  Substack / industry blog. Markdown, with inline citations and a references list.
- **Angle the writer should infer:** I keep hearing that 2026 is the year autonomous
  software agents stop being demos and start doing real work. I want a piece that takes
  that seriously — where the money is, who is winning, and what is still vaporware.
- **Tone:** confident, analytical, a little contrarian. Not a press release. Opinions
  welcome, but every number has to be sourced.
- **What I have:** strong opinions and a rough sense of the landscape (Anthropic,
  OpenAI, the orchestration startups, the "agents will replace SaaS seats" thesis).
  No structured research yet — that is what I need help compiling.
- **What I want back:** an outline I can argue with, the research compiled with
  citations, a drafted piece in my voice, and a final polish I can publish.

I have not told you who the reader is or exactly what they should DO after reading.
Infer the most useful audience and call-to-action from the angle above, state your
inference explicitly in the project brief, and write the whole piece to it — the framing
you pick drives every section, so I want it pinned up front where I can change it.
