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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.
·Foundry Team
RAG, explained for people who run a business
Retrieval-augmented generation is how an assistant answers from your documents. What it is, what it fixes, and the permissions problem inside it.
·Foundry Team
What a cyber security assessment actually looks at
A good security assessment isn't a mystery survey. Here's what a proper one examines, what it measures against, and what you should get at the end.
·Foundry Team
Zero trust for a business without a security team
Zero trust sounds like an enterprise programme. For a 30-person firm it is six controls, most already in your Microsoft 365 licence. The practical version.
·Foundry Team
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
An AI policy for a financial advice firm: five things to write down
The FCA regulates AI through its existing rules, so an AI policy is a governance document, not a technology one. Five sections, and what goes in each.
·Foundry Team
Five signs your business has outgrown break-fix IT
If IT only gets attention when something breaks, you pay for it in downtime. Here are five signs break-fix is costing you more than managed IT would.
·Foundry Team
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