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Featured, Sep 30, 2026

Use an agent where a step needs judgment, RPA or an API where it needs determinism, and a person where it needs accountability. A decision guide for finance and operations, with an accounts payable example.

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  • Sep 23, 2026, 6 min read

    How to govern AI agents in finance

    Govern an AI agent by deciding how much autonomy it has, proving it works before production and operating it after go-live. Five autonomy levels, six controls and what we do not claim.

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  • Apr 22, 2026, 7 min read

    Evals before agents: the fastest way to ship LLM features in production

    Most agentic projects stall because nobody can answer 'is the agent good?' with anything other than a vibe. A small evals harness, written before the agent, fixes that, and shortens the loop from prototype to production.

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  • Apr 14, 2026, 8 min read

    Agentic automation, beyond RPA

    RPA automates the happy path. Agents handle the exceptions that used to end up in someone's inbox. Here's how to tell which process needs which, and how to ship both safely.

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  • Apr 8, 2026, 6 min read

    The total cost of an RPA bot at month 13

    An RPA program's true cost is not the build. It's the maintenance you didn't budget for, the bots that quietly stopped working, and the compounding sprawl of badly-named workflows. Here's the model we use to keep month-13 honest.

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  • Mar 27, 2026, 6 min read

    Automate a good process, not a bad one

    The most valuable hour in any automation program isn't in UiPath Studio or the agent planner. It's at a whiteboard, rewriting the process before a line of code ships.

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  • Mar 12, 2026, 6 min read

    Process mining: when the spreadsheet beats the platform

    Many mid-market teams don't need a large process-mining license to find their automation candidates. They need a clean event log, an experienced analyst, and a short discovery window. Here's the lightweight method we use before reaching for Celonis.

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  • Feb 28, 2026, 5 min read

    Close cockpits: the BI pattern that actually gets used

    Most close dashboards are built once, looked at once, and quietly abandoned. The ones that survive share a small set of design choices, and they reduce close-week confusion.

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  • Feb 12, 2026, 5 min read

    What determines the real cost of an embedded automation engineer

    The lowest hourly rate is rarely the lowest cost. Four factors decide what an embedded engineer really costs, and every honest embedded-specialist agreement makes them visible.

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  • Jan 30, 2026, 7 min read

    An automation governance model that doesn't slow you down

    The wrong governance model puts every automation through a slow, multi-stage intake process. The right one writes down four rules, automates compliance with them, and gets out of the way. Here's the model we ship with new CoEs.

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