Jono Nourse
- 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
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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
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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- 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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- 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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- 12 Aug, 2026
No-Code AI Agents Now Run Payroll, Procurement, and Compliance. Who's Watching Them?
No-code AI has stopped being a demo trick and started running real business work, which means governance has to be built into the platform, not added …
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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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- 10 Aug, 2026
The 6 Types of Work You Can Hand to an AI Agent (and 6 You Can't)
AI agents can handle rule-based decisions and repetitive busywork, but hiring calls and ethical judgment still belong to people. This post maps out …
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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
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
10 Agent Skills That Matter More Than the Model You Pick
The model you choose matters less than what your agent can actually do. This post breaks down 10 practical agent skills, from coding to CRM …
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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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- 03 Aug, 2026
Building AI Skills Shouldn't Require an Engineer
A team member spent three hours manually building a Google Sheets skill before Skill Creator did the same job in minutes, from a plain-language …
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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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- 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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- 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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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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- 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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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
- 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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- 28 Oct, 2025
How Raygun's CS team uses Autohive to turn Gong calls into instant insights
A Customer Success Manager at Raygun was spending up to five hours per week manually reviewing Gong call recordings to extract key insights. By …
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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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Sumitra Manga
- 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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- 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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Reilly Oldham
- 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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- 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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