The Cotiss Library

Thoughts, arguments, and stories from the Cotiss community.

Letters

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Written by the founders.

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  • August 5, 2026Matt O'Halloran

    Why Cotiss isn't an MCP

    A protocol carries. It holds no view about what is true, and it hands the model whatever sits on the other end, faithfully, including all the parts that are wrong.

  • August 3, 2026Matt O'Halloran

    The proxy problem: why large organizations keep managing the container, not the chemistry

    Every large organization I have worked with makes its most consequential commercial decisions through proxies, mostly without noticing.

  • August 1, 2026Matt O'Halloran

    The record never revisits itself

    Most systems turn living decisions into dead records, and once that has happened the organization starts treating the past as though it were still the present.

  • July 30, 2026Matthew Whiting

    Every company knows less about itself than it thinks

    What actually runs a business lives outside its systems: in the emails that negotiated the deal, in the meeting where someone agreed to a change, in the PDF a vendor sent eighteen months ago. All of it is real, and almost none of it is read.

Blog

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What we're seeing across the market.

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  • May 26, 2026Cotiss

    A context layer the whole organization benefits from

    Most organizations treat vendor information like paperwork: it lives somewhere, it gets filed (sometimes), and you dig it out when you need it. In reality, vendor information is decision context.

  • May 25, 2026Cotiss

    Why Cotiss is different from other "context" tools

    A growing set of procurement vendors are starting to use the word "context." It is worth being precise about what we mean by it, because we mean something different from either of the two patterns the market already has.

Newsroom

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Our releases, and what's been written about us.

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