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 Procurement Teams
Procurement is two jobs wearing one title. The first is strategic: negotiating with suppliers, designing category strategy, managing risk, and finding savings that move the company's margin. The second is tactical:…
AI Agent for Gmail Attachment Filing
The attachment graveyard is a universal condition. Invoices, signed contracts, receipts, resumes, design files, spreadsheets, all of them arrive as attachments, get glanced at, and then live forever inside the email…
How to Connect an AI Agent to Notion (Safely)
Most teams connect their first agent to Notion in ten minutes, then discover a week later that it either sees the entire workspace or silently reads only the first hundred rows of a database. This guide is the safe…
Best AI Agents for Small Business (2026)
A small business is not a startup and not a solo hustle. It is an established operation, often two to twenty people, run by an owner who does three jobs before lunch and has no IT department to lean on. That shapes…
AI Agent for HubSpot Meeting Logging
Ask any sales rep what they hate most about the job and "updating the CRM" will be near the top of the list. Not the selling, not the calls, not even the rejection. The data entry. The half hour at the end of the day…
AI Agents for IT Service Desks: Triage to Fix
An AI agent helps an IT service desk move from triage to resolution by handling the repetitive parts of every ticket and stopping at the line where judgment and privilege begin. It reads each incoming ticket,…
What Is an AI Agent Runtime? Explained
An AI agent runtime is the software layer that actually executes an agent. The language model decides what to do next; the runtime is what makes it happen. It runs the loop of observing the situation, reasoning about…
AI Agent ROI Case Studies and Real Evidence
There is no single AI agent ROI number you can copy into your business case, and any roundup that hands you one is selling something. The honest version of the evidence is this: where companies concentrate AI on…
AI Agent Regulation Update: Summer 2026
As of mid-2026, there is no single AI agent law to comply with; there is a layered landscape you have to navigate at once. The EU AI Act is in phased enforcement, several US states have their own AI rules, the NIST…
AI Agent Implementation FAQ: Deployment Answered
An AI agent implementation goes right when you start with one narrow, well-defined workflow, give the agent least-privilege access to the systems it needs, keep a human approving consequential actions, and measure…
AI Agent for Weekly Status Reports
An AI agent can assemble your weekly status report by pulling from the tools where work actually happens. It reads the project tracker, the git history, the CRM, the shared docs, and the team chat, then summarizes…
AI Agent for Slack Knowledge Search
Every team has a question that gets asked once a week and answered the same way every time. "What is the staging database URL?" "Who approves a refund over five hundred dollars?" "Did we ever decide on the new logo…
AI Agent for Google Calendar Scheduling
An AI agent can schedule meetings on Google Calendar end to end. It reads the calendars of everyone invited, finds times when all of them are genuinely free, respects each person's working hours, buffers, and focus…
Why Pre-Launch Content Is a Long Game
Most teams treat content as something you switch on at launch, alongside the press push and the paid spend. It feels logical: why write about a product nobody can buy yet? The trouble is that content does not behave…
What WWDC 2026 Means for AI Agents
WWDC is Apple's developer conference, and in recent years it has become one of the most-watched moments in consumer AI, because Apple's choices shape what billions of phones can do by default. The interesting…
The Rise of Vertical AI Agents in 2026
For most of the early agent era, the pitch was breadth. The promise was a single general-purpose agent that could plan, browse, write code, and handle whatever you threw at it. That vision is still alluring, but in…
Lessons From 500 Blog Posts With No Traffic Yet
We have published more than 500 blog posts before launching our product, and the traffic is still a trickle. That is the honest headline, and we are writing it down on purpose. It is tempting for an early-stage…
Gravity Launch Readiness Update: Pre-Launch Status 2026
Most launch announcements arrive after the fact, polished and certain. This is the opposite kind of post. Gravity is still pre-launch, on a waitlist, and this is a candid look at exactly where things stand: what is…
Google Gemini Agent Capabilities 2026: What Changed
Google's Gemini agents can now take a goal, plan the steps, work across your apps and business systems, and run code in Google-hosted sandboxes. Four products do it: the Gemini agent for business (announced 8 October…
AI Agent Adoption in 2026: Enterprise vs SMB
For large companies in 2026, AI agents are a question of how: KPMG's Q3 2026 AI Pulse found 62% of US organizations with $1 billion or more in revenue building, deploying or developing them, up from 53% a quarter…
How to Build a Research Agent (Step by Step)
To build a research agent, you set up one repeatable pattern: gather information from defined sources, verify it, then synthesize a summary you can trust. In practice that means deciding the exact research question,…
Best AI Agents for Sales Teams 2026, Ranked
There is no single best AI agent for sales teams. The right one depends on where your pipeline actually leaks: top-of-funnel sourcing, follow-up that slips on a busy day, or a CRM that nobody keeps clean. So instead…
The Best AI Agents for Marketers in 2026
The best AI agent for marketers depends on where your work actually slows down. The content usually gets written; what slips is the rhythm around it: repurposing last week's post into channel-specific versions,…
AI Agent Platform Comparison Matrix 2026
AI agent platforms diverge on six dimensions that decide fit: how you tell the agent what to do, how you pay, whether the platform is no-code or code-first, how it connects to your tools, whether it supports human…
AI Agent for Your Webinar Follow-Up Sequence
Yes, an AI agent can run your post-webinar follow-up end to end: it pulls the registrant and attendance lists from your webinar tool, splits them into attended and no-show segments (and sorts attendees by engagement…
AI Agent for Podcast Show Notes (How-To)
Yes, an AI agent can turn a finished podcast episode into a complete set of show notes. Hand it the transcript, or the audio with timestamps, and it returns a tight episode summary, timestamped chapters, key…
AI Agent for NPS Survey Analysis: Themed Action
Yes, an AI agent can analyze NPS survey responses end to end. It computes the score and splits respondents into promoters, passives, and detractors, then reads every open-text comment, groups the verbatims into…
AI Agent for Content Calendar Management
Yes, an AI agent can manage a content calendar end to end: tracking every planned piece and its status, owner, and deadline across the tools the calendar lives in, flagging any upcoming week with no draft, chasing…
AI Agent for Churn Risk Monitoring (Early Warning)
An AI agent can monitor churn risk by watching the signals that precede a cancellation across every system they appear in, scoring each account, and surfacing the ones trending toward churn early enough to act. It is…
AI Agent Buying Guide 2026: Vendor Checklist
The right way to buy an AI agent platform in 2026 is to start from the job you want done, score every vendor on the same short list of criteria, and prove it with a small paid pilot before you sign anything. This…