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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 03 Aug, 2026
    • deepseek
    • ai-agents
    • model-selection
    • tool-calling
    • terminal-bench
    • fireworks-ai
    • cost-efficiency

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 03 Aug, 2026
    • GPT-5.6
    • Luna
    • Terra
    • Sol
    • OpenAI
    • model pricing
    • AI agent routing
    • Autohive
    • scheduled jobs
    • multi-agent workflows

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 31 Jul, 2026
    • ai-adoption
    • ai-maturity
    • agentic-ai
    • workflow-automation
    • shadow-ai
    • ai-roi
    • copilot
    • frontline-workers

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 31 Jul, 2026
    • weekly-update
    • product-updates
    • changelog
    • skill-creator
    • agent-visualiser
    • slack-integration

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 31 Jul, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • observability
    • agent-visualizer
    • tool-calling
    • product-features
    • debugging
    • performance
    • prompt-engineering
    • multi-agent

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 30 Jul, 2026
    • llm-routing
    • multi-provider
    • ai-infrastructure
    • uptime
    • reliability
    • anthropic-outage
    • model-diversity

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 30 Jul, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • observability
    • debugging
    • agent-visualizer
    • tool-calling
    • context-handoffs
    • product-features

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 29 Jul, 2026
    • Slack
    • AI agents
    • integrations
    • team collaboration
    • workflow automation

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 28 Jul, 2026
    • grok-4-5
    • xai
    • pricing
    • product-update
    • agents

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 27 Jul, 2026
    • AI models
    • AI agents
    • OpenAI
    • Anthropic
    • Gemini
    • xAI Grok
    • open source

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 27 Jul, 2026
    • Claude Opus 5
    • Anthropic
    • AI models
    • model selection
    • agentic AI
    • Autohive agents
    • benchmarks

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 24 Jul, 2026
    • AI models
    • AI strategy
    • LLM selection
    • model routing
    • Autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 24 Jul, 2026
    • weekly-update
    • product-updates
    • changelog
    • slack-integration
    • ai-model-updates
    • live-presence

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 24 Jul, 2026
    • xero-integration
    • ai-agents
    • invoicing
    • financial-automation
    • accounting
    • autohive-marketplace
    • new-zealand

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 23 Jul, 2026
    • gemini
    • ai-models
    • ai-agents
    • model-selection
    • automation
    • productivity

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 22 Jul, 2026
    • Gorgias
    • ecommerce support
    • helpdesk automation
    • customer support
    • Autohive integrations
    • AI agents

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 21 Jul, 2026
    • Klaviyo
    • integrations
    • marketing automation
    • ecommerce
    • agents

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 20 Jul, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • governance
    • ai-workflow-standardization
    • enterprise-ai
    • automation
    • consistency
    • productivity

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 17 Jul, 2026
    • ai-adoption
    • organizational-design
    • ai-agents
    • change-management
    • ai-governance
    • future-of-work

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 17 Jul, 2026
    • weekly-update
    • product-updates
    • changelog
    • xero-integration
    • asana-integration
    • interactive-maps

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 Andre Lepardo
  • 15 Jul, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • maps
    • route-planning
    • openstreetmap
    • product-update
    • autohive-skills

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 15 Jul, 2026
    • global-search
    • ai-productivity
    • context-switching
    • knowledge-management
    • autohive-skills
    • information-overload
    • ai-agents
    • workplace-efficiency

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 09 Jul, 2026
    • weekly-update
    • product-updates
    • changelog
    • global-search
    • crm-integrations
    • bulk-approval

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 07 Jul, 2026
    • AI accounting
    • finance automation
    • COUNT
    • New Zealand
    • Autohive Marketplace
    • workflow automation
    • accounting software

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 03 Jul, 2026
    • Autohive widgets
    • AI chat widget
    • website integration
    • customer support
    • lead generation
    • AI agents

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 26 Jun, 2026
    • autohive-skills
    • ai-consistency
    • ai-governance
    • ai-agents
    • brand-voice
    • team-collaboration
    • ai-workflows

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 Reilly Oldham
  • 21 May, 2026
    • Autohive
    • MCP

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 09 Mar, 2026
    • Autohive
    • AI security
    • Security

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 John-Daniel Trask
  • 25 Feb, 2026
    • Autohive
    • AI budget
    • AI ROI
    • Scaling AI

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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  • John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask
  • 10 Feb, 2026
    • Autohive
    • AI agents
    • Marketplace
    • dogfooding

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 Madison Daysh
  • 26 Jan, 2026
    • Autohive
    • AI agents
    • Marketplace
    • agent creators

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 Zheng Li
  • 19 Dec, 2025
    • Autohive
    • AI agents
    • holiday photos
    • photo editing
    • Nano Banana Pro

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 18 Dec, 2025
    • Autohive
    • workspaces
    • team collaboration
    • product update

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 Joe Sutheran
  • 13 Dec, 2025
    • community
    • user resources
    • learning hub
    • community support
    • events
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask
  • 12 Dec, 2025
    • product feature
    • AI notetaker
    • audio recording
    • AI summaries
    • meeting transcriptionn
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 11 Dec, 2025
    • Asana
    • AI agents
    • project management
    • task automation
    • integration
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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 Vivien McKenzie
  • 10 Dec, 2025
    • finance
    • AI agents
    • Xero
    • Gmail
    • accounts receivable automation
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 09 Dec, 2025
    • real-time data
    • AI agents
    • content creation
    • research automation
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Madison Daysh Madison Daysh
  • 08 Dec, 2025
    • Mailchimp
    • integration
    • email marketing automation
    • lead capture
    • subscriber management
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Madison Daysh Madison Daysh
  • 07 Dec, 2025
    • professional bios
    • AI agents
    • speaker introductions
    • content creation
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 06 Dec, 2025
    • Gmail
    • AI agents
    • email management
    • newsletter automation
    • productivity
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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 Sumitra Manga
  • 05 Dec, 2025
    • Google Business Profile
    • AI agents
    • reviews
    • sentiment analysis
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Vivien McKenzie Vivien McKenzie
  • 04 Dec, 2025
    • HR
    • AI agents
    • HR compliance
    • employment
    • employment legislation
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 03 Dec, 2025
    • Google Play Store
    • AI agents
    • sales
    • prospecting
    • lead generation
    • reviews
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 02 Dec, 2025
    • lead enrichment
    • AI agents
    • HubSpot
    • Zoho CRM
    • Google Sheets
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Sumitra Manga Sumitra Manga
  • 01 Dec, 2025
    • Microsoft 365 integration
    • integration
    • Outlook automation
    • SharePoint
    • OneDrive
    • 12 Days of Christmas '25

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 13 Oct, 2025
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • AI use case
    • innovation

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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  • Madison Daysh Madison Daysh
  • 06 Oct, 2025
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • marketing
    • productivity

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 16 Sep, 2025
    • AI agents
    • prompt engineering
    • productivity

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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  • Sumitra Manga Sumitra Manga
  • 03 Sep, 2025
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • business automation
    • marketing

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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  • Joe Sutheran Joe Sutheran
  • 12 Aug, 2025
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • business automation
    • marketing

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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  • Madison Daysh Madison Daysh
  • 10 Jul, 2025
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • business automation

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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  • John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask
  • 27 Jun, 2025
    • community
    • early access
    • AI agents

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 09 Jun, 2025
    • AI task automation
    • workflow automation
    • AI agents
    • AI delegation

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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  • Reilly Oldham Reilly Oldham
  • 18 May, 2025
    • AI models
    • AI agents
    • OpenAI
    • Anthropic
    • Gemini
    • xAI Grok

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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  • John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask
  • 28 Apr, 2025
    • early access
    • community
    • feedback

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 28 Apr, 2025
    • prompt engineering
    • AI agents
    • no-code

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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  • John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask
  • 13 Mar, 2025
    • early access
    • community
    • feedback

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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  • Madison Daysh Madison Daysh
  • 12 Mar, 2025
    • no-code
    • AI development
    • AI agents
    • business automation

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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  • Zheng Li Zheng Li
  • 06 Mar, 2025
    • no-code
    • AI development
    • business automation

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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