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  • An AI agent alone is just a conversationalist. Skills make it work
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    An AI agent alone is just a conversationalist. Skills make it work

    An agent without skills can explain how to raise a credit note. An agent with skills raises it. The difference is not the model. It is what the agent is allowed to run and under which procedure. Here is what a skill actually is, what one costs to add, and where the line sits beyond which an agent should not act alone.

  • Sales Automation: What It Can't Do for Your Sales Rep
    ·5 min read

    Sales Automation: What It Can't Do for Your Sales Rep

    The top ten results on Google explain what sales automation will do for a salesperson. None of them mention what it won’t do or how the team will react when the system starts evaluating leads. We cover both of these points, along with what to do with a lead that the system has rejected.

  • Business Process Automation When a Company Has No IT Staff
    ·5 min read

    Business Process Automation When a Company Has No IT Staff

    Guides on automation start with mapping the process. At a company with 25 employees, the process isn’t documented anywhere, and there’s no one to do it. We show you how to choose your first process without an analyst on the team, how much it actually costs to handle it manually, and how to back out of automation that didn’t work out.

  • Accounting Automation in an Accounting Firm: Where It Actually Saves Time
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    Accounting Automation in an Accounting Firm: Where It Actually Saves Time

    All guides on accounting automation are written with companies that have their own in-house accountant in mind. An accounting firm serving fifty clients faces a different problem: fifty parallel workflows and monthly reminders to submit documents. We show what tasks can be delegated to a machine without compromising professional responsibility.

  • Customer service automation that doesn't turn your company into a call center
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    Customer service automation that doesn't turn your company into a call center

    When using this phrase, Google asks directly whether automation will improve service quality. The first ten results provide a list of examples, but none of them answer the question. We show which queries can be safely automated, where to set the threshold for handing them over to a human, and what happens in the first few weeks after launch.