We measure the exact level of autonomy your problem needs — from deterministic rules to a fully agentic system — so you get the outcome you want at a cost you can predict.
Sometimes agentic AI is the answer. Sometimes it isn't. We'll give you the honest one.
More agency isn't better — it's a trade. Autonomy buys adaptability and pays in cost and control. Drag the flame to see what each level means, and where it actually fits.
Field notes on right-sizing autonomy — the principle we design by, and how it plays out in a real system where the requirements decide the flame.
Give a solution the minimum autonomy it needs — no more. Why the smallest workable flame prevents over-engineering, runaway cost, and needless non-determinism, and keeps humans on the decisions that matter.
A walk-through of a multi-step order-return system and support chatbot — reading the requirements feature by feature to find the exact level of agency each one justifies, with a scorecard you can borrow.
Where a field note isn't enough. Deeper treatments of the problems we keep running into on real systems, written to be read by the people who have to build and defend them.
Seven LLM Flaws and How Agentic AI Works Around Them
Large language models hallucinate, agree with users who are wrong, don't reproduce their own work, degrade over long multi-step tasks, can't calculate, and can't tell an instruction from the data they were told to read. None of it gets patched away by the next release. The paper maps eleven architectural patterns onto the seven weaknesses they contain, with the evidence for each and a design-review checklist you can use before the system is built.
AI was used in varying amounts in preparing the white papers listed above, ranging from background research and drafting through editing and formatting. Each paper is reviewed by its named author, who remains responsible for its claims and citations.
Answer six questions about your use case — the inputs, the judgment, the stakes — and we'll place it on the spectrum and tell you the level of agency it actually earns.
The best model is the one that fits the task, the data boundary, and the budget. We're not tied to any provider, so our recommendation is only ever about your outcome.
We're paid for judgment, not for the biggest system we can sell you. Sometimes the honest answer is a smaller flame — or none at all.
Agentic AI moves by the week. On our Spotify show we unpack the newest research, releases, and real deployments — what actually works, what's hype, and what it means for the level of agency your systems need.
Listen on SpotifyNo pitch deck of buzzwords — a straight read on whether agentic AI earns its place, and what it would take to do it well.
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