https://valaren.ai/blog What we have learned building and running AI agents in production. https://valaren.ai/blog/what-it-takes-to-put-an-ai-agent-to-work https://valaren.ai/blog/what-it-takes-to-put-an-ai-agent-to-work Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/what-closed-sales-taught-us-about-following-up https://valaren.ai/blog/what-closed-sales-taught-us-about-following-up Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT We read 1,283 sold auto-insurance leads end to end and set them against 1,471 lost ones. Speed to lead barely moved the outcome. The sixth dial, the 5pm call and the third week did. https://valaren.ai/blog/how-an-ai-agent-confirms-appointments https://valaren.ai/blog/how-an-ai-agent-confirms-appointments Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inside Remi, the agent that confirmed 92% of an Ontario ENT clinic’s appointments in 30 days: the outreach sequence, how it reads a reply, and the four cases it hands to the front desk. https://valaren.ai/blog/designing-outreach-people-can-trust https://valaren.ai/blog/designing-outreach-people-can-trust Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/from-a-text-message-to-a-planned-route https://valaren.ai/blog/from-a-text-message-to-a-planned-route Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/how-a-legal-ai-agent-earns-trust https://valaren.ai/blog/how-a-legal-ai-agent-earns-trust Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/a-process-the-whole-team-can-see https://valaren.ai/blog/a-process-the-whole-team-can-see Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/subagents-teams-and-durable-agents https://valaren.ai/blog/subagents-teams-and-durable-agents Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-memory https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-memory Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/profiles https://valaren.ai/blog/profiles Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pick a profile and the agents adapt: engineer peer review for builders, strategic partner for product owners. https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-wiki https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-wiki Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-performance-reviews https://valaren.ai/blog/agent-performance-reviews Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://valaren.ai/blog/daily-standups https://valaren.ai/blog/daily-standups Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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.