<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>kant.dev (English)</title><description>kant.dev is a technical partner for AI agents, MDM/PIM, and business automation, building digital systems that connect data, tools, and workflows.</description><link>https://kant.dev/</link><language>en</language><item><title>What does an AI agent cost? Prices and examples</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-cost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-cost/</guid><description>What does an AI agent cost? Build and running costs at a glance, with model prices (November 2026), a worked example, and the traps where costs run away.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>smb</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Office AI agents: Cowork, ChatGPT Work, and more</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-office-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-office-agents/</guid><description>Claude with Cowork and Duet, ChatGPT Work, Perplexity Teammates: what the new office AI agents do, what they cost, and where they still fail.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>smb</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Prevent AI hallucinations: answers need evidence</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/prevent-ai-hallucinations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/prevent-ai-hallucinations/</guid><description>How to prevent AI hallucinations: why agents should answer only with evidence from your data, how that is built, and what happens with contradictions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>pim</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>AI agent glossary: 20 terms in plain words</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-glossary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-glossary/</guid><description>Agent, harness, MCP, A2A, RAG, human in the loop: 20 terms around AI agents, two sentences each, with what they mean for a business.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>automation</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>10 questions before your first AI agent project</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-project-checklist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-project-checklist/</guid><description>Ten questions to settle before your first AI agent: process, data, access, approvals, cost, and success. With the answers that carry a project.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Can AI agents use German websites? 1,000 tested</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-readiness-german-websites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-readiness-german-websites/</guid><description>Can browser agents use German websites? 1,000 top sites tested: 52% with fake buttons, 66% with covered controls, almost no WebMCP.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>seo</category><category>dach</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>12 jobs for AI agents in ERP, PIM, and CRM</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-use-cases-erp-pim-crm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-use-cases-erp-pim-crm/</guid><description>Twelve jobs AI agents take over in ERP, PIM, and CRM today: what the agent does, what it needs, and what stays with a person.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>pim</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>AI agent, RPA, or workflow: which fits when</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agents-vs-rpa/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-agents-vs-rpa/</guid><description>AI agents, RPA, and workflow automation compared: what each does, where each breaks, and why most business processes need all three.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>MCP or API: how AI agents reach your ERP</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/mcp-vs-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/mcp-vs-api/</guid><description>MCP is the standard AI agents use to work in ERP, PIM, and CRM. What it adds to an API, which ERPs ship a server, and when the API is the better route.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>automation</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>n8n vs Make vs Zapier for AI agents</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/n8n-vs-make-vs-zapier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/n8n-vs-make-vs-zapier/</guid><description>n8n, Make, and Zapier compared for AI agents: billing and prices (November 2026), agent features, data protection, and when code is the better choice.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>automation</category><category>ai</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>9 product data errors AI agents catch</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/product-data-errors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/product-data-errors/</guid><description>Missing attributes, mixed units, copy that contradicts the attribute: nine typical product data errors, how an AI agent finds them, and what it proposes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pim</category><category>mdm</category><category>ai</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is an AI agent? Definition and examples</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent/</guid><description>An AI agent is a language model that completes tasks with tools. 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Which aged within months, which moved into the products, and what lasts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>automation</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>15 AI automation examples for small businesses</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-automation-examples-small-business/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-automation-examples-small-business/</guid><description>Fifteen AI automations that pay off in small and mid-sized businesses: inbox, invoices, leads, product data, and reports, with the systems each one needs.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>smb</category><category>dach</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free accessibility checkers, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-accessibility-checkers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-accessibility-checkers/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free website accessibility checkers: what WAVE, axe, Lighthouse, and others test, and what no automated WCAG check can.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tooling</category><category>dach</category><category>smb</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free DMARC checkers, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-dmarc-checkers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-dmarc-checkers/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free DMARC, SPF, and DKIM checkers: what each one tests, where record checkers stop, and which email mistakes they catch.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tooling</category><category>operations</category><category>smb</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free domain authority checkers</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-domain-authority-checkers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-domain-authority-checkers/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free domain authority checkers: Ahrefs DR, Moz DA, Semrush Authority Score, Majestic Trust Flow, and why they never agree.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free Open Graph checkers, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-open-graph-checkers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-open-graph-checkers/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free Open Graph checkers and link preview testers for LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and WhatsApp, and what each one misses.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free robots.txt testers, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-robots-txt-testers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-robots-txt-testers/</guid><description>Google retired its robots.txt Tester in 2023. The free tools that replace it, which parser each uses, and how to test GPTBot and other AI bots.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><category>ai</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free schema markup validators, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-schema-markup-validators/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-schema-markup-validators/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free schema markup validators: Rich Results Test, Schema Markup Validator, Search Console, and what valid markup still misses.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><category>ai</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free tech stack detectors, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-tech-stack-detectors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-tech-stack-detectors/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free tools that show what a website is built with: Wappalyzer, BuiltWith, WhatRuns, Netcraft, and where detection stops.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tooling</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Can AI crawlers read JavaScript?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/can-ai-crawlers-read-javascript/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/can-ai-crawlers-read-javascript/</guid><description>Mostly not. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot read the raw HTML and skip JavaScript. What that hides from ChatGPT and Claude, and how to fix it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>seo</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is /goal in Claude Code and Codex?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/claude-code-codex-goal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/claude-code-codex-goal/</guid><description>/goal keeps Claude Code or Codex working across turns until a completion condition holds. How the evaluator decides, and how to write a goal that holds.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>automation</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is an agent-friendly website?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-agent-friendly-website/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-agent-friendly-website/</guid><description>An agent-friendly website is one AI agents can operate for a user: real buttons, named controls, stable layout, WebMCP. Google&apos;s rules, checked.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>seo</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is an agent harness?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-agent-harness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-agent-harness/</guid><description>An agent harness is the software around a language model that makes it act: context, tools, loop, permissions, checks. Why it matters more than the model.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>automation</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is an LLM wiki?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-llm-wiki/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-an-llm-wiki/</guid><description>An LLM wiki is a knowledge base of linked Markdown pages that a language model writes from raw sources. Karpathy&apos;s pattern, and how it compares to RAG.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>engineering</category><category>data</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>AI visibility of German websites: 1,000 checked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-visibility-german-websites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-visibility-german-websites/</guid><description>We checked the 1,000 most-linked German websites for AI visibility: 60% lack Organization schema, 27% block an AI crawler, 6% publish llms.txt.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>seo</category><category>dach</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free AI visibility checkers, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-ai-visibility-checkers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-ai-visibility-checkers/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of free AI visibility checkers: which count your mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini, and which test whether AI can read your site.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>AI email triage: what the agent does</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-email-triage/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-email-triage/</guid><description>AI email triage: an agent reads incoming mail, extracts the data, routes it to CRM, ERP, or support, and drafts the reply. How it works, where humans stay.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>automation</category><category>integration</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Product data for AI shopping assistants</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/product-data-for-ai-shopping/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/product-data-for-ai-shopping/</guid><description>AI shopping assistants recommend products they can verify. Which product attributes decide, where they have to live, and how to get a catalog ready.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pim</category><category>mdm</category><category>ai</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What is RAG? Retrieval in plain terms</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-rag/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-is-rag/</guid><description>Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets an AI answer from your own documents: find the right passages, then write a grounded answer that cites them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>integration</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>26% of top websites block AI crawlers</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/how-many-sites-block-ai-crawlers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/how-many-sites-block-ai-crawlers/</guid><description>Robots.txt scan of the 800 most-linked websites: 26.6% block at least one AI crawler, GPTBot 19.2%, OAI-SearchBot only 8%. Full per-bot numbers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free website speed tests, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-website-speed-tests/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-website-speed-tests/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of the best free website speed tests: what each one measures, why lab and field scores disagree, and which fixes matter.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>seo</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>EU AI Act deadlines after the 2026 omnibus</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/eu-ai-act-deadlines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/eu-ai-act-deadlines/</guid><description>The digital omnibus moved EU AI Act high-risk duties to December 2027 and August 2028. Article 50 transparency has applied since 2 August 2026.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>smb</category><category>dach</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>MainWP uptime checks stuck on Last Check</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/mainwp-uptime-checks-stuck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/mainwp-uptime-checks-stuck/</guid><description>MainWP uptime checks can start but never finish when the multi-cURL path stalls. Here is the debugging path and the one-line fix.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>operations</category><category>tooling</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>The best free cookie scanners, ranked</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-cookie-scanners/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/best-free-cookie-scanners/</guid><description>A vendor-neutral ranking of the best free cookie scanners: what each one actually checks, which test the consent gate, and which only list cookies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gdpr</category><category>privacy</category><category>cookies</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>7 cookie consent mistakes that break GDPR</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/cookie-consent-mistakes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/cookie-consent-mistakes/</guid><description>The cookie consent mistakes we find most often on business sites: tracking before consent, fake reject buttons, undisclosed tools, and US transfers.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gdpr</category><category>privacy</category><category>cookies</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Is your cookie banner actually GDPR-compliant?</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/gdpr-cookie-banner-compliance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/gdpr-cookie-banner-compliance/</guid><description>What the GDPR and the TDDDG require from a cookie banner: consent before tracking, a reject that works, and every tool named in your privacy policy.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gdpr</category><category>privacy</category><category>cookies</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Structured intake is the first automation step</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/structured-intake-first-automation-step/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/structured-intake-first-automation-step/</guid><description>The highest-leverage automation step is making one recurring workflow start with structured intake: a form with explicit fields, not email or chat.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>automation</category><category>smb</category><category>dach</category><category>operations</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>AI integration for German SMBs in 2026</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-integration-german-smbs-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/ai-integration-german-smbs-2026/</guid><description>What &apos;AI integration&apos; means for a German SMB in 2026: the four project categories, the DACH-specific layer, and the mistakes that stall deployments.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>integration</category><category>smb</category><category>dach</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>What MDM/PIM solves, and what it doesn&apos;t</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-mdm-pim-actually-solves/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/what-mdm-pim-actually-solves/</guid><description>MDM and PIM defined: what master data and product information systems actually solve, what they don&apos;t, and when an SMB needs one.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pim</category><category>mdm</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>PIM migration checklist: the data layer</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/pim-migration-checklist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/pim-migration-checklist/</guid><description>The data layer is where PIM migrations get hard. A practical checklist from inventory and schema mapping to post-cutover validation.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>pim</category><category>mdm</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>CRM/ERP integrations: the cost behind the button</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/crm-erp-just-need-a-button/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/crm-erp-just-need-a-button/</guid><description>A CRM/ERP &apos;button&apos; is the visible 5% of the integration. The six hidden cost categories behind it, and how to estimate these projects honestly.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>integration</category><category>engineering</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item><item><title>Business automation with 12 tools and no time</title><link>https://kant.dev/en/blog/twelve-tools-and-no-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://kant.dev/en/blog/twelve-tools-and-no-time/</guid><description>Tool sprawl is a process problem, not a software problem. A practical triage for business automation: keep, consolidate, automate, drop.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>automation</category><category>operations</category><category>tooling</category><author>Philipp Kant</author></item></channel></rss>