Notes on rebates, groups and trading
Practical writing on how buying groups, societies and merchants run their agreements, rebates and supplier relationships.
- AI
The source of truth — what AI agents mean for eBiz (and your group)
The people predicting the end of software are confusing two different things: the screen your users click, and the system underneath. Anyone can build a new screen. Replacing what sits beneath it is something else entirely.
- Agreements
Deal sign-off, rebuilt
Signers adopt a signature once, initials apply themselves section by section, and the finished agreement is fingerprinted and filed against the deal. It never leaves eBiz, and there is no per-document charge.
- Security
Why a valid login is now the biggest risk to your deal data
Agentic AI lets someone with legitimate access walk an entire agreement library overnight. No login screen can stop that, because the login is genuine.
- Product
Why we never documented eBiz — and what changed
For twenty-five years the knowledge lived in people's heads, answered one email at a time. AI changed that equation twice over: it made comprehensive documentation possible, then gave it a second audience.