Rules, RPA, ML, LLMs, and Agents: The Decision Ladder

A practical decision ladder for choosing between rules, RPA, traditional machine learning, LLM workflows, and agent-like systems.

April 23, 2026 · 8 min · Michelle

AI-Powered Email Sorting

How to use AI to classify, prioritize, and route inbound email without turning your inbox into an uncontrolled black box.

March 16, 2026 · 8 min · Michelle

Build a Simple AI Classification Pipeline

How to design a lightweight classification pipeline with a clear schema, confidence thresholds, review paths, and a realistic refresh cycle.

March 16, 2026 · 7 min · Michelle

AI for Ticket Triage and Case Routing

How to use AI to classify incoming cases, assign ownership, protect service levels, and escalate the right issues without losing operational control.

March 16, 2026 · 8 min · Michelle

Smart Invoicing with AI

How to use AI to extract, validate, and route invoice information while keeping finance controls, approval logic, and exception handling intact.

March 16, 2026 · 7 min · Michelle

Automate Reports with AI

How to use AI to turn raw operational inputs into clearer recurring reports while preserving review, context, and accountability.

March 16, 2026 · 7 min · Michelle

Generate Marketing Content at Scale

How to scale AI-assisted content production without creating repetitive, low-trust marketing output, and how to design a content system that protects quality, brand fit, and distribution logic.

March 16, 2026 · 7 min · Michelle

AI Agents vs Workflows

How to separate true agent-like systems from straightforward AI workflows, and why most business use cases should start simpler.

March 16, 2026 · 8 min · Michelle
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The Robot Needs a Shift Supervisor

TL;DR for operators Robots do not fail only because their “brain” is too small. They fail because the system asks the wrong component to do the wrong job, at the wrong time, with the wrong view of the scene, and then acts surprised when the banana does not land in the bowl. Shocking, yes. ...

July 3, 2026 · 24 min · Zelina
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Borrowed Hands Still Need a Grip

TL;DR for operators Robot-learning teams do not usually run out of model ideas first. They run out of clean demonstrations on the exact robot, in the exact setup, with the exact action labels needed for behavioural cloning. The paper behind GLAM attacks that bottleneck directly: instead of asking whether cheap auxiliary demonstrations can be thrown into the training pile, it asks whether their effects can be translated into actions the target robot can actually execute.1 ...

June 27, 2026 · 20 min · Zelina