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With AI, Vanity Integrations are a Thing of the Past
Customers today are savvier than ever before. They understand the difference between well-thought-out experiences and those that are clearly rushed to…
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Hugh Durkin
Scaling Context Engineering, Through Context Partnerships
How partnerships can capture a meaningful slice of a multi-trillion-dollar transformation.
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Hugh Durkin
Browsers, and Agents, are the Future of Mobile
AI assistants now have billions of users. Time to revisit my decade-old opinions on the future of mobile browsing.
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Hugh Durkin
How To Build Your First Partnerships Agent (Step By Step)
Building simple AI agents is easy - and it’s getting easier by the day.
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Hugh Durkin

June 2025

How To Co-Build Products with Partners
Most platforms already have strong foundations to co-build with partners.
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Hugh Durkin
An MCP Primer for Platform Partnerships Teams
Integration patterns we’ve seen before are about to repeat at unprecedented speed and scale.
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Hugh Durkin
Why Platform Partners Make Perfect Acquisition Targets
Today’s small partner could be tomorrow’s game-changing acquisition.
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Hugh Durkin
The Return of the Preload: How AI Partnerships Mirror the Mobile Carrier Playbook
Hardware manufacturers are now stakeholders in the future success of new AI platforms.
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Hugh Durkin
Why Great Partner Managers Make Great Product Managers (And Vice Versa)
The skills transfer more cleanly than most people realize.
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Hugh Durkin
One of Your Largest Partners Violated Your Policies. Now What?
Partners will always be tempted to test the limits.
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Hugh Durkin
Your First 30 Days as a Platform Partner Manager
Build a baseline understanding before you do anything else.
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Hugh Durkin
How to Get Partners to Partner With Partners
Every platform partner has one thing in common - you.
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Hugh Durkin
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