<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Justin Farr-Jones: writing</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing</link><description>Deal-led co-founder and operator. Private equity, emerging markets, fintech and AI. London.</description><item><title>Hire contractors, not employees: why A2A and ephemeral workers are the future of AI agents</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/a2a-and-ephemeral-workers</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/a2a-and-ephemeral-workers</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An opinion. The winning agent architecture will not be one all-knowing assistant with standing access. It will be short-lived, single-purpose workers that talk to each other through open protocols.</description></item><item><title>Can a company trust its data to Anthropic or OpenAI? Ask where the memory lives</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/memory-is-the-ip</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/memory-is-the-ip</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The model providers&#x27; contracts answer the training question. The bigger question is who owns your AI&#x27;s memory and context, because that is where the intellectual property now sits.</description></item><item><title>The harness half-life: AI is now moving faster than you can build for it</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/the-harness-half-life</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/the-harness-half-life</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The machine-learning era took eight years. The agentic era has taken about twenty-four months. What that compression means for builders, boards and investors.</description></item><item><title>Run your board like an investment committee</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/investment-committee-lessons</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/investment-committee-lessons</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Three habits from the investment committee that make any board faster and better.</description></item><item><title>What technical founders need from a deal-side co-founder</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/what-technical-founders-need</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/what-technical-founders-need</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The other half of the founding team, from someone who has sat on both sides of the table.</description></item><item><title>Structure is strategy</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/structure-is-strategy</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/structure-is-strategy</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>What building the first sub-Saharan Africa UCITS fund taught me about capital and design.</description></item><item><title>Agentic AI will reach the deal team before the finance function</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/agentic-ai-reaches-the-deal-team-first</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/agentic-ai-reaches-the-deal-team-first</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Where I see AI agents working in private equity today, and the controls that have to come first.</description></item><item><title>The model is an argument, not a forecast</title><link>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/the-model-is-an-argument</link><guid>https://justinfarrjones.com/writing/the-model-is-an-argument</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Three habits from €2 billion of LBO work that still decide how I approach every deal.</description></item></channel></rss>