Ron Mitchell

Quick summary AI agents — purpose-built AI assistants that can act on your behalf (think: qualify leads, send follow-ups, update CRM records, and generate reports) — are moving out of labs and into real business workflows. Major SaaS and cloud vendors are embedding agent-style features inside CRMs, email, and analytics tools, and startups are shipping […]

Quick summary Autonomous AI agents — software that can plan, act, and complete multi-step tasks with little human hand-holding — are moving from experiments into real business workflows. Companies are using agents to qualify leads, automate expense and invoice processing, run recurring reports, and coordinate internal requests (IT, HR, procurement). The result: faster cycle times,

Quick summary Big vendors (Microsoft, Salesforce and others) have pushed AI agents — “Copilots” and autonomous assistants — into everyday business tools. These agents can draft outreach, update CRMs, generate sales reports, and trigger routine workflows with little human prompting. The result: less admin work, faster insights, and more consistent customer engagement. Why this matters

Quick summary AI “agents” — goal-driven AI tools that act on your behalf — have moved from demos to real business use. Instead of answering a single question, these agents can run follow-up actions, pull data from multiple systems, and complete multi-step tasks like qualifying leads, scheduling outreach, or preparing executive reports. Why this matters

Summary AI agents — software that can act on your behalf, access internal systems, and complete multi-step tasks — are no longer just a demo. Vendors like Microsoft and Google have baked agent-style features into their products, and a wave of purpose-built tools can now connect to CRMs, databases, ticketing systems, and BI platforms. Combined

Quick summary In recent months we’ve seen a big shift: “AI agents” — task-focused, autonomous AI assistants that can run workflows, pull from company data, and act across apps — are moving from demos into real business use. Companies are using agents to qualify leads, automate outreach and follow-ups, generate insight-rich sales reports, and trigger

Quick summary AI agents — autonomous, task-focused AI assistants — are moving from tech demos into real business use. Over the past year we’ve seen cloud and SaaS vendors add “copilot” or agent features, and open-source frameworks make it easier to build agents that handle specific workflows (think: triage leads, run weekly reports, summarize customer

Quick summary AI “agents” — autonomous software that can read, decide, and act across apps — have moved from experiments into practical business pilots. Companies are using agents to draft personalized sales outreach, triage customer support, prepare recurring reports, and automate multi-step workflows that used to take hours of human time. Why this matters for

Quick summary AI “agents” — autonomous, task-focused AI that can carry out multi-step work (like qualifying leads, scheduling meetings, or building reports) — moved from research demos into real business pilots in 2024. Major platform vendors released agent frameworks and copilots that connect to calendars, CRMs, and internal data. The result: teams can automate repetitive

Quick summary Major vendors and startups are moving “AI agents” out of the lab and directly into business apps. These autonomous assistants can research leads, draft personalized outreach, update CRM fields, generate routine reports, and even trigger follow-up automations — all with far less human hand-holding than traditional automation tools. Why this matters for business