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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 11 Sep, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • application-layer
    • generative-ai
    • enterprise-ai
    • new-zealand
    • data-sovereignty
    • ai-strategy

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 11 Sep, 2026
    • ai-skills
    • career-development
    • future-of-work
    • ai-adoption
    • workplace-training
    • ai-agents

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 11 Sep, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • automation
    • human-in-the-loop
    • ai-pilots
    • customer-experience
    • responsible-ai
    • workflow-automation

AI Agents That Work While Your Team Sleeps

Most AI pilots stall before they finish real work. This post breaks down five traits of agents that actually deliver, using JD Trask's overnight-work …

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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 02 Sep, 2026
    • relay-app
    • workflow-automation
    • migration
    • zapier
    • make
    • n8n
    • autohive
    • ai-agents
    • approval-workflows

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 01 Sep, 2026
    • AI agents
    • AI governance
    • AI security
    • AI compliance
    • AI observability
    • Human oversight
    • Enterprise AI

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 27 Aug, 2026
    • MCP
    • REST
    • webhooks
    • AI agents
    • Autohive
    • integrations
    • workflows
    • security

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 21 Aug, 2026
    • AI agents
    • content distribution
    • marketing automation
    • workflow automation
    • Autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 20 Aug, 2026
    • AI agents
    • multi-agent systems
    • AI orchestration
    • workflow automation
    • Autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 20 Aug, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • ai-agent-tools
    • automation
    • integrations
    • mcp
    • workflow-automation
    • ai-governance
    • autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 19 Aug, 2026
    • AI agents
    • AI agent delegation
    • Approval workflows
    • Human-in-the-loop
    • AI governance
    • Autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 18 Aug, 2026
    • kimi-k3
    • moonshot-ai
    • autohive
    • ai-models
    • data-privacy
    • ai-agents
    • benchmarks
    • open-weight-models

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 18 Aug, 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
  • 16 Aug, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • audit-trail
    • ai-governance
    • compliance
    • regulatory-compliance
    • data-security
    • eu-ai-act
    • autohive

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 12 Aug, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • compliance
    • regtech
    • autohive-marketplace
    • workflow-automation
    • data-security
    • hr-compliance
    • ai-governance

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 12 Aug, 2026
    • no-code-ai
    • ai-agents
    • agent-governance
    • workflow-automation
    • autohive-marketplace
    • multi-agent-workflows

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 11 Aug, 2026
    • eventbrite
    • ai-agents
    • automation
    • event-management
    • crm-integration
    • hubspot
    • workflow-automation

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 10 Aug, 2026
    • ai-agents
    • automation
    • workflow
    • task-delegation
    • ai-governance
    • business-process-automation
    • human-in-the-loop

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 06 Aug, 2026
    • xero
    • invoicing
    • automation
    • xero-integration
    • financial-reporting
    • ai-agents
    • accounting

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 06 Aug, 2026
    • MCP
    • Model Context Protocol
    • integrations
    • AI agents
    • Autohive
    • agent capabilities
    • workflows

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 05 Aug, 2026
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • workflow-automation
    • rag
    • document-processing
    • crm-automation
    • customer-support-automation

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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  • Jono Nourse Jono Nourse
  • 04 Aug, 2026
    • AI agents
    • integrations
    • automation
    • Gorgias
    • customer support
    • workflow

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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  • 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
  • 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
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • Lana Vaughan Lana Vaughan
  • 07 May, 2025
    • technical support
    • AI agents
    • no-code
    • customer success

10X support results with AI agents for tech support

Raygun transformed their tech support by implementing Autohive's AI Docs Agent, cutting response times from 4.5 hours to minutes while letting human …

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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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  • 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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