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AI AgentsA Digital by Default Product

Click-to-configure AI agents that answer, qualify and book — live in minutes

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AI Agents Are Inevitable — Deploying One Now Takes Minutes, Not Months
OpinionNew

AI Agents Are Inevitable — Deploying One Now Takes Minutes, Not Months

AI agent adoption is now a when, not an if — but the real blocker was never belief, it's deployment friction. Dottie, our click-to-configure agent builder, takes an agent from sign-up to answering, qualifying and booking real enquiries in minutes: no code, no prompt engineering, no developer required.

7 min·10 Jul
Voice Agents Go No-Code: xAI's Voice Agent Builder and the 2026 Voice AI Land Grab
AI News

Voice Agents Go No-Code: xAI's Voice Agent Builder and the 2026 Voice AI Land Grab

xAI's Voice Agent Builder is live in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice, with a free phone number in every account and a working agent in about two minutes. Here's what shipped, why the single-model stack argument matters, and what it means for service businesses weighing up voice AI right now.

9 min·8 Jul
AI Tool Sprawl vs Consolidation: When Fewer Apps Actually Wins
Guides

AI Tool Sprawl vs Consolidation: When Fewer Apps Actually Wins

A practical audit guide for buyers deciding whether to consolidate overlapping AI tools or keep specialised ones. Covers when consolidation saves money, when it costs capability, and a five-step stack

7 min·6 Jul
The Agentic Tipping Point: What 2026's AI Numbers Mean for Service Businesses
Industry

The Agentic Tipping Point: What 2026's AI Numbers Mean for Service Businesses

The 2026 analyst headlines are eye-watering — but almost all of them are written for the Fortune 500. Here is what the agentic-AI tipping point actually means if you run a clinic, a firm, or a 30-person service business, and the pragmatic path through it.

8 min·30 Jun
Meet Your AI Coworkers: How a Small Team of AI Agents Runs the Busywork
Operations & Automation

Meet Your AI Coworkers: How a Small Team of AI Agents Runs the Busywork

Forget the one giant do-everything bot. The pattern that actually works in 2026 is a small team of specialist AI agents — an SDR, a support rep, a CRM keeper, an orchestrator — with humans on the approvals. Here is how it fits together.

9 min·27 Jun
The Calls You Miss Are the Revenue You Lose: AI Voice Agents in 2026
Customer Service

The Calls You Miss Are the Revenue You Lose: AI Voice Agents in 2026

Every unanswered call at a clinic, firm or trade business is a booking quietly walking to a competitor. Here is how 2026's voice AI finally got good enough to catch them — and how to deploy it without sounding like a robot.

8 min·25 Jun

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