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Spreadsheets as Agent Workspaces: Beyond the Formula Bar
Why the humble spreadsheet is one of the best environments for AI agents to read, write, and verify data — and why grounded tabular reasoning beats free-text prompting.
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How to Evaluate an AI Agent Before You Trust It With Your Inbox
A concrete eval methodology for action-taking agents: measure task success, failure recovery, and over-action risk before you hand over the keys.
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The Inbox Is the Best Agent Interface We Already Have
Email's threads, recipients, and async replies aren't legacy baggage — they're a proven control surface for AI agents. Here's why the inbox is great agent interface design.
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Designing Memory for AI Agents: What Actually Works
Memory isn't one feature. A practical breakdown of episodic, semantic, and working memory for AI agents — and how to wire them into real workflows.
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Why AI Struggles With Spreadsheets — and How to Fix It
LLMs reason poorly over raw grids because cells lose their meaning. Here's why ai spreadsheet analysis breaks down — and how structure fixes it.
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How AI Agents Should Read Your Calendar
A practical guide to what AI scheduling agents actually need — timezone handling, conflict resolution, and intent inference — and where today's automations break.
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Building a Custom Inbox Triage Agent in Tamaton
A step-by-step guide to building a custom email agent that reads, labels, drafts replies, and schedules follow-ups using Tamaton's unified context.
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How to Evaluate an LLM for Your Workflow (Not the Leaderboard)
Public benchmarks rarely predict real performance. Here's how to build a task-specific eval harness from your own emails, docs, and spreadsheets.
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Context Windows Are Not Memory: Designing Agent State
The context window is a scratchpad, not storage. Here's how to architect external memory layers for durable, reliable agent state.
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Why Your RAG Pipeline Retrieves the Wrong Chunks
A diagnostic framework for the quiet retrieval failures that degrade RAG quality — from chunking strategy to embedding mismatch.
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Why Your RAG Pipeline Retrieves the Wrong Chunks
Retrieval failures aren't one bug — they're three. A diagnostic framework for isolating chunking, embedding, and reranking problems instead of guessing.
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Email Triage at Scale: Building Stateful Classification Systems
An architecture guide for AI systems that classify email by learning from patterns over time, rather than judging each message in isolation.
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