Jono Nourse
- 18 Sep, 2026
What’s New This Week: 11–18 September 2026
This week's Autohive update lets you remove contacts from a HubSpot list directly, adds an HTML viewer for picking page elements and text to edit, and …
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- 11 Sep, 2026
New Zealand's Export Industries Are Already Built for AI
JD Trask's Aotearoa AI Summit keynote and fresh export data point to the same conclusion: New Zealand's food and fibre, tourism, and tech sectors are …
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- 11 Sep, 2026
AI Is the New Electricity, and the Application Layer Is Where It Pays Off
Autohive co-founder JD Trask argues that as AI models become shared infrastructure, the value moves to what gets built on top of them: the application …
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- 11 Sep, 2026
Your Employer Won't Teach You AI. Here's How to Learn It Anyway.
If your employer isn't giving you AI training, the responsible move is to build the skill yourself, starting with one small experiment on real work. …
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- 11 Sep, 2026
What's New This Week: 4–11 September 2026
Autohive users can now open PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files and ask AI to answer questions or make edits right in the platform. This week also …
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- 11 Sep, 2026
Why Capacity Beats Cost-Cutting in AI Strategy
Cost-cutting is only one use for AI, not the whole strategy. The bigger opportunity is freeing up capacity to finally tackle the market, product, or …
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- 10 Sep, 2026
$76 Billion by 2038: The AI Race Small NZ Businesses Are Positioned to Win
Large companies have too many approval layers and legacy systems slowing them down on AI. Small and medium NZ businesses can test and drop tools in …
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- 10 Sep, 2026
The 30-Day AI Pilot: How to Get a Real Result Before Your Next Strategy Meeting
JD Trask argues most AI programmes stall because nobody owns a measurable result. This piece lays out a 30-day pilot format built on one workflow, one …
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- 10 Sep, 2026
How AI Can Draft Your Google Review Replies (And Still Leave You In Charge)
An AI can read your new Google reviews and draft replies in your brand's voice, but nothing goes live until a person checks it. See how a small pilot …
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- 09 Sep, 2026
AI is New Zealand's next export opportunity
At the Aotearoa AI Summit, Autohive co-founder JD Trask argued New Zealand should stop treating AI mainly as a governance and risk topic and start …
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- 09 Sep, 2026
Stop Hiring a Chief AI Officer to Do Your Job
One title can't own a general-purpose technology, so CEOs and leadership teams need to set the direction, funding and pace for AI themselves rather …
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- 04 Sep, 2026
What's New This Week: Achievements, Meetings, and Mobile Updates
Achievements is now live for earning plan credits, meetings gained live transcription and one-click summaries, and mobile catches up with recordings, …
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- 03 Sep, 2026
Claude Code Went Down for Three Hours on 28 August. Some Teams Didn't Even Notice.
Claude Code and Claude Cowork went down for nearly three hours on 28 August 2026, the latest in a string of Claude outages this year. Here is what …
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- 02 Sep, 2026
82% of CIOs Say Employees Are Creating Shadow AI Faster Than IT Can Govern It
Blocking employee AI tools doesn't remove the demand behind shadow AI, so enterprise IT needs a sanctioned platform with identity, scoped permissions, …
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- 02 Sep, 2026
Best AI sales agents 2026: Bardeen, Lindy, Clay, and Autohive compared by what they actually do
Bardeen, Lindy, Clay, and Autohive get billed as AI sales agents, but each one operates at a different layer of the sales stack, and only one gives a …
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- 02 Sep, 2026
Relay.app Shutdown 2026: What Gets Deleted, What Transfers, and Where to Rebuild
Relay.app users are on a hard export deadline, and Autohive offers one of the faster paths back to visual workflows, plain-language agents, and human …
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- 01 Sep, 2026
8 Pillars of Enterprise-Grade AI Agents (And Why Most Companies Are Missing at Least 3)
Trust in an AI agent comes from eight things working together, and research shows most companies have built out fewer than half of them. This post …
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- 31 Aug, 2026
Autohive Is Now on AWS Marketplace: Buy It With Money You've Already Committed
Companies with committed AWS spend can now buy Autohive through AWS Marketplace and count the purchase against their existing commitment.
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- 28 Aug, 2026
What's New This Week: Files, Teams, Mobile and More
This week Autohive rolled out the Virtual File System and Present tool to every plan, added Microsoft Teams, Notion, and Netlify integrations, and …
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- 27 Aug, 2026
MCP vs REST vs Webhooks: What Actually Powers an AI Agent in 2026
REST, webhooks, and MCP each solve a different problem in an AI agent stack: pulling data, reacting to events, and finding tools at runtime. This post …
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- 26 Aug, 2026
An Autohive Agent Turned 10 Years of Spotify Data Into a Presentation, No Setup Required
Autohive's Reilly handed a generic agent his own 10-year Spotify export and asked it to find something interesting, no code tool or setup required. In …
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- 21 Aug, 2026
AI Agents Are Quietly Running Content Distribution for Marketing Teams Right Now
Content distribution agents now handle scheduling, channel selection, repurposing, and republishing at scale, and Autohive gives you the building …
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- 21 Aug, 2026
More Model Choice and Agent Scheduling: What's New, 14-20 August 2026
This week's update brings three new AI models, lets agents create and manage their own scheduled jobs, and adds six Marketplace integrations including …
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- 20 Aug, 2026
79% of Companies Use AI Agents. Only 11% Reach Production. What Separates Them.
Multi-agent AI systems succeed or fail based on how cleanly agents hand off work, not on which model powers them.
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- 20 Aug, 2026
AI Agent Tools 101: The Plain Guide to How Agents Get Real Work Done
This guide breaks down what AI agent tools are, the main categories, and how Autohive implements them as integrations and actions. It also covers …
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- 19 Aug, 2026
The Approval Bottleneck That's Quietly Killing Your AI Agent ROI
Match each AI agent action to a level of oversight based on its risk and reversibility, and delegation moves fast without losing control.
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- 18 Aug, 2026
Kimi K3 Tops BrowseComp and SpreadsheetBench, and Your Data Never Touches Moonshot's Servers
Kimi K3, Moonshot AI's open-weight model, just landed in Autohive's model dropdown, and it beats GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 4.8 on BrowseComp and …
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- 18 Aug, 2026
Choosing the right AI model to power your Autohive agent
This guide helps you choose the right AI model for your Autohive agent by breaking down the pros, cons, and best use cases for the latest offerings …
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- 18 Aug, 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Cheap, Fast, and Live on Autohive, But the Price Doubles in 2027
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash brings a million-token context window and stronger agentic reasoning to Autohive at an introductory price that makes it a …
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- 18 Aug, 2026
Grok 4.6 in Autohive: The xAI Model That Sees, Reasons, and Acts
Grok 4.6 combines vision, tool use, reasoning, and streaming in a single xAI model, making it a strong default for technical and operational agents …
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- 17 Aug, 2026
Why Your Team Has AI Access and Still Won't Use It
Most companies already have AI access, and most of it goes unused. This post looks at why, from fear of getting it wrong to unclear ownership and …
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- 16 Aug, 2026
AI Agent Audit Trail: The Record You Don't Have Until an Auditor Asks For It
Most agent logs cannot answer basic questions about what an AI agent did, why, or who approved it. This post breaks down what a real audit trail …
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- 14 Aug, 2026
What's New This Week: Workspace Files, Marketplace Integrations, and Faster Foundations
This week, agents gained a virtual file system to read, write, and generate files right inside your workspace, and the Autohive Marketplace added …
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- 13 Aug, 2026
Someone on Your Team Is Booked at 120%. Google Calendar and Sheets Can Prove It.
Combining the Google Calendar and Sheets APIs lets an Autohive agent turn scattered availability and allocation data into a weekly capacity check …
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- 12 Aug, 2026
AI Agents for Compliance: Use What's Ready, Build What Isn't
Compliance work often gets forced into rigid software or stalls out with chatbots that can't finish a task. This post shows how to use ready-made …
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- 11 Aug, 2026
Stop Doing Eventbrite Busywork by Hand: Let an AI Agent Run It
An AI agent on Autohive can run Eventbrite for you: creating and cloning events, syncing attendees to your CRM, and sending follow-ups once the event …
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- 07 Aug, 2026
What's New This Week: 31 July to 7 August 2026
This week, Autohive rolled out folder and zip uploads, Discord chat channel support, and a mobile app update that added artifact versioning, agent …
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- 07 Aug, 2026
Kids and AI: A Dinosaur Game, a Seven-Year-Old, and Real Guardrails
JD's seven-year-old son built a real dinosaur game with AI, using paper sketches, voice coding, and his dad sitting right beside him. The story lays …
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- 06 Aug, 2026
Autohive Is New & Noteworthy in the Xero App Store: What You Can Automate Now
Autohive is now in Xero's New and Noteworthy collection. Here's what's available to automate once your Xero account is connected.
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- 06 Aug, 2026
Model Context Protocol Explained: How to Find MCP Servers and Connect Them in Autohive
MCP gives Autohive agents a standard way to connect to outside tools, and knowing how to vet a server before you register it is what separates a safe …
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- 05 Aug, 2026
Autohive mobile 1.3 is live: approvals, chat, and finished reports on iOS and Android
Autohive mobile 1.3 brings @mentions, artifact versioning, and chat-list filtering to iOS and Android, making the mobile app a first-class place to …
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- 04 Aug, 2026
70+ Places an AI Agent Can Live (So Your Team Actually Uses It)
Agents built into the tools your team already uses get used consistently, while standalone agents tend to get ignored.
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- 03 Aug, 2026
DeepSeek V4-Flash Closes In on Top Agent Models at 2% of the Price
DeepSeek V4-Flash hits 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, three points behind GPT-5.6 Sol, at roughly 2% of the input cost. It's live in Autohive via …
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- 03 Aug, 2026
GPT-5.6 Pricing Changed. Route to Sol, Terra, or Luna.
Route short, bounded, high-volume tasks to Luna, keep long-context and complex reasoning work on Terra or Sol, and check your scheduled jobs and …
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- 31 Jul, 2026
Most AI Projects Fail Before the First Tool Is Bought
AI adoption happens in stages, not leaps. Knowing where your organization sits, from no AI to full agentic operation, matters more than chasing the …
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- 31 Jul, 2026
What's New This Week: Skill Creator, Agent Visualiser, and More
This week's Autohive update adds Skill Creator for building custom skills and brings Agent Visualiser to every plan, so you can see how agents work …
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- 31 Jul, 2026
Stop Guessing What Your AI Agent Did: Autohive's Output Visualizer Shows the Run
Autohive engineer Risheet Peri explains how the Output Visualizer turns any agent run into a live execution tree you can read in real time, with …
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- 30 Jul, 2026
Anthropic Went Down for Three Hours. Autohive Customers Never Noticed.
Anthropic's infrastructure failed for three hours on July 29, 2026. Autohive's routing layer shifted customers to other providers automatically, and …
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- 30 Jul, 2026
Why Your AI Agent Failed, Step by Step
AI agents fail in ways that never show up in a single LLM call: wrong tool choices, malformed arguments, stale retrieval, dropped context in handoffs. …
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- 29 Jul, 2026
Use your Autohive agents directly from Slack
Autohive now connects directly to Slack. Teams can use agents inside channels and threads, pass files and images both ways, and keep agent work …
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- 28 Jul, 2026
Grok 4.5 on Autohive now gets cheaper in long conversations
xAI reduced Grok 4.5 cached input pricing by 40%. Standard context cached input dropped from $0.50 to $0.30 per 1M tokens, long context from $1.00 to …
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- 27 Jul, 2026
Claude Opus 5 is now live on Autohive for your hardest agent work
Assign Claude Opus 5 to the agents and workflows that need deep reasoning and long context, and keep cheaper models on everything else.
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- 24 Jul, 2026
Stop Using One AI Model for Everything
Model choice works best as an ongoing, per-task decision built into your workflow, not a single default picked once and left alone.
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- 24 Jul, 2026
This Week in Autohive: Slack, New Models, Live Presence, and More
This week's Autohive update adds Slack as a chat channel, new xAI Grok and Fireworks models, and live presence in shared conversations. It also brings …
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- 24 Jul, 2026
Stop Logging Into Xero to Chase Invoices. Let AI Agents Handle the Rest.
Autohive's new Xero integration puts 26 actions in the hands of custom AI agents, from chasing overdue invoices to running scheduled financial …
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- 23 Jul, 2026
Fast, low-cost Gemini Flash models are now live on Autohive
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now live on Autohive. These fast, low-cost models are built for everyday agent tasks, from document …
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- 22 Jul, 2026
Autohive agents now work inside Gorgias to cut manual ticket work
The Gorgias integration gives Autohive agents access to tickets, macros, reporting, and Gorgias’s own AI Agent, while keeping every write action gated …
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- 21 Jul, 2026
Connect Autohive Agents to Klaviyo and Spend Less Time in the Dashboard
The Autohive Klaviyo integration lets agents read, report on, and act on campaigns, flows, and profiles, while scheduling, sending, and consent …
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- 20 Jul, 2026
AI agent governance: why AI rollouts stall without it
Most AI rollouts don't fail because of the technology. They stall because there's no governance layer keeping output consistent as more people and …
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- 17 Jul, 2026
AI Tools Change Nothing Until the Work Does
Most organizations have already bought AI tools and hosted the workshops, but they're still bolting new technology onto old structures. This post …
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- 17 Jul, 2026
What's New This Week: Xero, Asana, RSS, and Maps
This week's update adds Xero and Asana integrations, an RSS reader, and interactive maps in chat. We also improved agent settings, desktop app …
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Andre Lepardo
- 15 Jul, 2026
Your agent can now show you a map
Ask an Autohive agent about locations and it can answer with an interactive map in the conversation, including labelled pins, status colors, and …
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- 15 Jul, 2026
The AI Context Gap Is Killing Productivity. Global Search Helps Close It
Most knowledge workers spend more time hunting for information than using it, and AI tools only add to the babysitting. Autohive's new Global Search …
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- 09 Jul, 2026
What's New This Week: Global Search, CRM Integrations, and Faster Action Approval
This week's Autohive update adds Global Search for jumping around the app faster, new Salesforce and FreshSales CRM integrations, and bulk approval …
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- 07 Jul, 2026
AI-native accounting: How COUNT and Autohive automate finance workflows
COUNT and Autohive are changing finance workflows by replacing rigid plugins and manual processes with flexible AI teammates.
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- 03 Jul, 2026
How to add an Autohive AI chat widget to your website
Turn your website into an interactive experience by embedding your custom Autohive AI agents to help visitors instantly without needing an account.
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- 26 Jun, 2026
How Autohive Skills create consistent AI output across your whole team
Teach an AI agent something once, and have it carry across every agent you have and your entire organization so everyone gets the same results.
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Reilly Oldham
- 21 May, 2026
Autohive MCP support is here
You can now register any remote MCP server as an integration on Autohive — scoped to your plan, governed by your admins, and available to your agents …
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- 09 Mar, 2026
The $200 million question your AI provider doesn't want you to ask
The fallout from the Anthropic/OpenAI Pentagon deal demonstrates that for AI users and businesses, security and trust are more valuable than features …
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John-Daniel Trask
- 25 Feb, 2026
The real cost of AI productivity and how we’re helping you manage it
Effectively scaling AI requires a system that empowers teams to innovate freely while giving leaders predictable control over the budget.
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- 10 Feb, 2026
Growing Autohive with Autohive: Growth Hack Week reflections from our CEO
In one week, we built a network of 8 collaborative AI agents to automate our growth, and the first suite is already live in the Autohive Marketplace.
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Madison Daysh
- 26 Jan, 2026
The Autohive Marketplace is here: Build agents and share your genius
The Autohive Marketplace allows you to monetize your custom AI agents by sharing them with a community of users and earning credits with every use.
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Zheng Li
- 19 Dec, 2025
Get instant professional headshots and holiday photos with 3 new Autohive AI agents
Autohive introduces three new AI agents—Professional Headshots, Christmasify, and NYEify—that allow users to effortlessly transform their photos …
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- 18 Dec, 2025
An update on workspace visibility and collaboration
To improve collaboration, Autohive is making all workspace conversations visible to every team member starting in early January 2026, while private …
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Joe Sutheran
- 13 Dec, 2025
Connect, learn, and grow with the Autohive Community
The Autohive Community is your hub for learning, connecting, and growing your AI automation expertise through resources, discussions, and live events.
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- 12 Dec, 2025
Get all the notes without the bots with Autohive Meetings
Autohive Meetings lets you record audio conversations, get automatic transcriptions, and receive AI-powered summaries with action items, all within …
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- 11 Dec, 2025
Automate your Asana tasks and save hours every week
The Asana Project Manager agent analyzes your emails and calendar events to extract specific deliverables, create actionable tasks, and maintain …
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Vivien McKenzie
- 10 Dec, 2025
Chase overdue invoices automatically with the Debt Collector agent
The Debt Collector agent connects your Xero accounting data with Gmail to automatically identify overdue invoices, categorize them by age, and send …
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- 09 Dec, 2025
The Research Blogger agent writes with real-time accuracy
The Research Blogger agent solves AI's outdated information problem by verifying the current date and running dual-research strategies to produce …
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- 08 Dec, 2025
Automate your email marketing with the Mailchimp integration
The Mailchimp integration lets your Autohive AI agents automatically manage email lists, capture leads from conversations, and create campaigns while …
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- 07 Dec, 2025
The Bio Builder turns self-promotion into a simple conversation
The Bio Builder agent researches your professional background and generates three ready-to-use bios tailored to your specific purpose, from quick …
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- 06 Dec, 2025
From inbox chaos to curated digest in seconds
The Newsletter Digest agent transforms hundreds of unread newsletter emails into a single, organized digest with trending themes and personalized …
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Sumitra Manga
- 05 Dec, 2025
Your Google Business reviews, answered automatically
The Google Business Reviews agent monitors your Google Business Profile, analyzes customer sentiment, and crafts personalized responses that match …
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- 04 Dec, 2025
Stay ahead of NZ employment law changes with this new agent
The NZ HR Regulation Assistant agent helps HR teams quickly access current New Zealand employment legislation, track upcoming regulatory changes, and …
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- 03 Dec, 2025
Turn Google Play Store complaints into your next sales conversation
The Google Play Reviews Analyzer agent scans app store feedback to identify users experiencing problems your business can solve, turning complaints …
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- 02 Dec, 2025
Unwrap smarter sales data with 3 Lead Enrichment agents
The Lead Enrichment agents connect to your CRM or spreadsheet to automatically research contacts, update records with verified professional …
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- 01 Dec, 2025
Announcing our most requested integration: Microsoft 365
Autohive's Microsoft 365 integration connects your entire Microsoft suite to AI agents, letting you automate emails, scheduling, and file management …
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- 13 Oct, 2025
How to overcome the imagination barrier in AI adoption
This blog post argues that the main obstacle to AI adoption is a lack of imagination rather than technology, and it offers a practical framework for …
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- 06 Oct, 2025
5 Simple AI agents to help marketers work smarter
This article introduces five collaborative AI agents on the Autohive platform that solve common marketing frustrations by working together to …
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- 16 Sep, 2025
Build better agents faster with our Prompt Writer agent
Learn to accelerate AI agent development by using an AI to write system prompts. This guide provides a 3-step process for creating more reliable …
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- 03 Sep, 2025
Pole position marketing: How AI agents elevated a Track Day event
Ever tried to rally a passionate car community with a tiny team and a tight timeline? With Autohive, I transformed regular track day content into a …
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- 12 Aug, 2025
How to build a brand voice agent for your business
Learn to create an AI agent that perfectly captures your unique writing style. This guide shows you how to use Autohive's Brand Voice Analyzer to …
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- 10 Jul, 2025
Ready-to-use AI agents now available on Autohive
Autohive just launched a catalog of specialized AI agents you can add to your workspace with just one click. From cybersecurity analysis to property …
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- 27 Jun, 2025
Launching Autohive.com
Autohive officially launches to make AI agents accessible to every team. CEO John-Daniel Trask shares how the platform removes technical barriers, …
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- 09 Jun, 2025
What should I delegate to an AI agent?
Learn how to systematically evaluate your daily tasks and discover which ones you can delegate to AI agents for maximum productivity gains through …
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- 18 May, 2025
Choosing the right AI model for your Autohive agent
This guide compares the strengths and ideal use cases of major AI models available in Autohive - OpenAI for structured outputs, Anthropic Claude for …
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- 28 Apr, 2025
Announcing round 2 of Autohive's early access program
After a successful first round with our early adopters, we're expanding Autohive's early access program. Join us to explore multi-agent discussions, …
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- 28 Apr, 2025
How to craft prompts that make AI work for you
Master the art of prompt engineering with these simple, practical techniques to get better results from AI chatbots and tools without needing …
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- 13 Mar, 2025
Welcome to Autohive's early access
As an early access member, you're now part of our founding community. Your insights, feedback, and experiences will help us create a platform where …
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- 12 Mar, 2025
A beginner’s guide to AI agents
This beginner's guide explains AI agents - software systems that work on your behalf to achieve goals. Learn how these digital colleagues operate …
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- 06 Mar, 2025
What is no-code AI development
No-code AI development empowers anyone to create powerful AI solutions without writing a single line of code, opening up new possibilities for …
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