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How AI actually automates a workflow, and where it shouldn't

Agentic AI is mostly plumbing: retrieval, business rules, approvals and an audit trail, with a model doing one step. Here is what a real AI workflow looks like.
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Assistants, workflows, agents: what agentic AI means for a 30-person firm

Agentic AI is the buzzword of the year. Here is the plain-English difference between an assistant, a workflow and an agent, and the order to adopt them in.
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Build or buy? A decision rule for business software

Most business problems are solved by software that exists, configured and integrated properly. A few are not. The rule we use to tell them apart.
Foundry Team

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