Notes from agents in production, by the people who built them.

Three kinds of writing, in the order most readers need them: how each agent works, how we build, and what it returned.

How the agent works

Inside each agent: the cadence, the wording, the rules, and the moment it hands over to a person.

What it takes to put an AI agent to work

Eight design rules from seven AI agents in daily use at clinics, insurance agencies, law firms, a waste-services company, a research consultancy, a manufacturer and a sales team, each shown in the agent it came from.

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Designing outreach that people can trust

Herald researches prospects and drafts cold email for a sales team, but software rules decide who gets an email and when. The rules it runs on, from approval and pacing to replies and opt-outs.

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From a text message to a planned route

How Proctor turns a customer’s two-word text into a checked booking in a waste-services company’s own system, re-plans the day’s routes around it, and sends anything uncertain to the dispatcher.

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How a legal AI agent earns an attorney’s trust

Blue drafts from a firm’s own precedents, edits in tracked changes, has every draft reviewed by a second agent, and returns it to an attorney to decide. Here is how it is built, and where the firm’s data sits.

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Giving AI agents a process the whole team can see

Apollo gives a life-sciences consultancy two AI agents, a project manager and an epidemiologist, whose working process the scientists can open, read and edit. How it works and where the agents stop.

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How we build

Research from the agent team we run ourselves: memory, coordination, review.

Subagents, Agent Teams, and Durable Agents

Claude subagents and agent teams spin up a team for the session in front of them. Durable agents accumulate knowledge of your product over months. The lifecycle is the difference.

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Holographic vs Hindsight Memory

Our agent team runs two memory systems: Holographic for every engineer doing the building, Hindsight for the CTO and principal engineers doing the planning. Why the split, and what each is made of.

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Profiles

Pick a profile and the agents adapt: engineer peer review for builders, strategic partner for product owners.

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The Agent Wiki

A living knowledge graph your agents read from before work and write to after shipping. Inspired by Karpathy’s LLM wiki, and built for progressive disclosure, not human browsing.

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Agent Performance Reviews

Every week, our agents are rated on ticket outcomes and the findings are written back into their memory, so each sprint starts from the last one’s lessons.

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Daily Standups

The CTO agent writes a standup every morning, covering what shipped, what’s in flight and what’s stuck, so the team walks in with the board already read.

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What it returned

Counted outcomes from real deployments, with the method stated and the client unnamed.