Building autonomous AI agents. Notes from the team building Gravity. AI workflows, the future of recurring work, and what we learn along the way.
SEO problems are quiet. A ranking slips two positions, then five, then off the first page. A technical change blocks a section of your site from being crawled. A competitor publishes a better page and takes your…
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Product launches fail in the gaps between teams. Engineering ships on time, but the help docs are not ready. Marketing has the campaign, but sales was never briefed. The feature is live, but support gets blindsided…
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Offboarding is the process everyone agrees matters and nobody fully owns. When an employee leaves, a dozen things have to happen across HR, IT, finance, and their team: accounts closed, equipment returned, knowledge…
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Customers tell you what they think constantly, across support tickets, surveys, reviews, social posts, and sales calls. The problem is never a lack of feedback; it is that the feedback is scattered across a dozen…
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Contract review is the bottleneck that nobody schedules around. A vendor agreement lands in someone's inbox, sits for three days because legal is buried, then gets a rushed read because the deal needs to close by…
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Most teams underuse the content they already make. A blog post that took a week to research gets published once and forgotten. A webinar that hundreds attended lives on as a recording nobody rewatches. A research…
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Competitor pricing changes constantly, and most teams find out too late. A competitor drops a price on your best-selling product and you keep selling at the old price for a week, losing sales you never see. Or they…
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Wedding planning is one of the most detail-dense service businesses in existence. For every hour a planner spends on creative decisions, florals, timelines, and the emotional work of guiding a couple, several more…
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Running a tutoring service means teaching is only part of the job. Behind every lesson sits a pile of scheduling requests, parent emails, intake forms, and invoices that pile up faster than any one person can…
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Supply chain management is a high-stakes coordination job buried under a mountain of repetitive communication. For every hour you spend on strategic sourcing or supplier negotiations, you spend several more chasing…
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Photography is a creative business buried under an admin business. For every hour you spend shooting or editing, you can spend just as long answering inquiries, chasing contracts, sending delivery links, and…
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Personal training is a coaching job, but most independent trainers spend a surprising share of their week on tasks that have nothing to do with coaching. Scheduling, reminder texts, weekly check-in emails, program…
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Nonprofit fundraising runs on relationships, but it gets buried in admin. Development directors at small and mid-size organizations spend a disproportionate share of their week writing acknowledgement letters,…
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Music production is a creative job buried under a mountain of admin. For every hour you spend in a session, you spend more time managing releases, chasing distributors, reconciling royalty statements, and keeping…
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Inventory management is one of the most number-heavy, repetitive jobs in any product business. You track hundreds or thousands of SKUs, watch stock levels against reorder thresholds, chase suppliers for delivery…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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, a budget cap so total spend stays inside a window, and an auto-pause that stops the agent…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A prompt is not documentation; it is the logic of the agent. Change a line and you change how the agent behaves, sometimes for the better, sometimes in ways you only notice three days later when results quietly…
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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…
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