Notes on getting work done by agents
Comparisons, prices as of this month, and what actually works when you hand a task to an AI agent. Written by the people who build and test them.
AI Agents for Inventory Managers: A 2026 Playbook
An AI agent does the reading and drafting in inventory work. It pulls stock from your system, sets it against sales and lead times, and hands you a short list: reorder this, expedite that, recount this, clear that.…
AI Agents for Interior Designers: 2026 Guide
Interior design is a creative profession buried under a mountain of admin. For every hour spent on concepts, material palettes, or site visits, there are several more hours spent chasing vendor quotes, processing…
AI Agent for Customer Onboarding Automation
Customer onboarding is one of the highest-stakes workflows in any SaaS or service business. A new customer who reaches first value quickly stays and expands. One who stalls in a slow, manual onboarding process churns…
Gravity vs Coze: Bot Builder vs Agent Platform (2026)
Coze is one of the most capable no-code bot builders shipping in 2026. The canvas is clean, the plugin library is deep, and the free tier is genuinely generous, which is rare in this category. It is backed by…
How to Set AI Agent Spending Limits
To set spending limits on an AI agent, give it three controls that work together: a per-run cap so one task cannot run away, budget caps so total spend stays inside a day and a month, and an auto-pause that stops the…
How to Schedule AI Agent Runs With Cron
To schedule an AI agent with cron, you write a five-field expression that says when the run should fire, attach it to the agent, and set the time zone explicitly. A cron schedule turns a one-off agent into a…
How to Handle AI Agent Errors Gracefully
An agent that never fails does not exist. APIs time out, tools return garbage, a model invents a step that was never asked for, and a permission check blocks an action halfway through a task. The question that…
How to Create an AI Agent Team Workspace
A team workspace for AI agents is a shared space where everyone buys, runs, and governs the same agents under one set of rules, instead of each person quietly building their own. The short answer to "how do I create…
How to Connect an AI Agent to a Private API
Connecting an AI agent to a private API is what turns a chatbot into something that does real work. The agent stops describing what could happen and starts reading your inventory, creating tickets, or pulling a…
How to Build an AI Agent for a Data Pipeline
A data pipeline moves data from where it lives to where it is useful, cleaning and checking it on the way. The hard part is rarely the happy path. Sources change a column name overnight, a feed sends half its usual…
How to Audit an AI Agent's Decision History
To audit an AI agent's decision history, you reconstruct a single run from its log: the input it received, the plan it formed, every tool it called with the arguments and results, the final output, who triggered it,…
AI Agents for Travel Agencies: 2026 Guide
A travel advisor's real product is judgment: knowing which resort suits a honeymoon, which layover is worth the savings, which supplier answers the phone when a flight cancels. Yet most of an advisor's day disappears…
AI Agents for Insurance Brokers: 2026 Guide
Insurance broking is an admin-heavy trade. An independent broker juggles multiple carriers, chases documents that never arrive on time, and tracks renewal dates across hundreds of clients. The job is advice and…
AI Agents for Event Planners: 2026 Guide
Event planning is a high-volume coordination job dressed up as a creative one. For every hour you spend on design or guest experience, you spend several more chasing vendors, updating spreadsheets, and answering the…
How to Test an AI Agent Before Going Live (Launch Readiness)
An agent that passes every test in the lab can still fail on its first real day. Test data is tidy; the real world is not. Going live is its own discipline, separate from proving the agent works on known cases, and…
How to Chain AI Agents for Complex Tasks (Orchestration Tutorial)
Some jobs are too big for one agent. Producing a competitor analysis means researching several companies, summarising each, and assembling a comparison; doing all of that in a single agent stretches it thin and makes…
How to Build a Multi-Step AI Agent Workflow (Step by Step)
Most useful agent work is not a single action. Chasing an overdue invoice means pulling the ledger, finding what is overdue, drafting a message for each client, sending it, and logging the result. That is a…
How to Add Human-in-the-Loop to an AI Agent (Approval & Escalation)
The fastest way to lose trust in an agent is to let it do something irreversible that it got wrong. The fix is not to supervise everything, which would defeat the point of automating, but to design the agent so a…
Deterministic vs Probabilistic AI Agents: Predictability Trade-offs
Ask the same agent to do the same thing twice. If it does exactly the same thing both times, it is deterministic. If it might take a slightly different path the second time, it is probabilistic. That single property,…
AI Agent Planning vs Execution: The Cognitive Architecture Split
Every agent has to answer two different questions. First, what should I do to reach this goal. Second, how do I actually do it. The first is planning. The second is execution. They look like one smooth motion from…
AI Agent Context Window Management: Memory and Context Strategies
An AI agent can only think about what fits in front of it. That "in front of it" is the context window: the span of text the model reads before deciding its next move. For a quick question it never fills up. For a…
What Is an AI Agent Swarm? A Plain-Language Guide
An AI agent swarm is several agents working in parallel toward a shared goal, coordinating through a shared environment, messages, or a supervisor, with useful behavior emerging from their interaction rather than…
AI Agent vs Software Robot: What's the Difference?
The one-line distinction is this: a software robot replays a fixed script of clicks and keystrokes, while an AI agent reasons about a goal and decides its own steps at run time. The robot follows a recording. The…
AI Agent vs Digital Worker: What's the Difference?
Here is the one-line distinction. A digital worker is a vendor's marketing package: a named, human-shaped persona, say an accounts-payable clerk, that bundles automation, often RPA bots, with some AI on top. An AI…
AI Agent Architecture Patterns Explained (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Reflection)
An AI agent is not one thing. Under the surface, the agent follows a control structure that decides how it reasons, when it calls tools, whether it checks its own work, and how it splits a job into smaller jobs. That…
AI Agent for WordPress Comment Moderation: How It Works
Comments are the part of a WordPress site that never sleeps. They arrive overnight, on weekends, and in bursts after a post does well, and a chunk of them are spam, a smaller chunk are abuse, and the rest are the…
AI Agent for Twitter Mention Monitoring: How It Works
On X (Twitter), the gap between a mention and a reply is where reputations are made or lost. A frustrated customer tweets, a journalist quotes you, a prospect asks how you compare to a rival, and a bot tags you to…
AI Agent for Stripe Subscription Churn Prevention: How It Works
By the time a customer clicks cancel, the decision was made weeks ago. The card that failed three times, the plan that got downgraded, the seats that stopped logging in, the support ticket that never quite got…
AI Agent for Shopify Review Response: How It Works
A new product review lands on your Shopify store. Now the clock starts. A happy five-star note deserves a warm thank-you while the buyer still feels good. A two-star complaint about a torn seam needs a calm reply…
AI Agent for LinkedIn Recruiter Outreach: How It Works
Sourcing eats a recruiter's day. You read a role brief, search for people who fit it, read profile after profile, write a first message that does not sound like a template, wait for replies, chase the silent ones,…